Espèces III

This picture results to be the third outing to ¨Species¨ trilogy that began with a friendly galactic message packing a recipe on how to combine extraterrestrial DNA with human is sent to genetic scientifics on Earth. As scientists undergoing the weird experiment resulting in a sexy half alien, half human , she is called Sil . But Sil is a killing machine who escapes from the investigation laboratory while an expert team to find her . Having created the thing , they have only themselves to blame . As the alien Sil (Natasha Hensridge) disguised as a human is pursued desperately by the colleague scientists , while the monster has to hunt down especially nubile male prey to procreate her alien race . As she seduces young people into mating to produce a baby to expand her descendants on Earth . As her species decays succumbing to infections and illnesses , an alien seductress (Sunny Mabrey) immunologically stronger becomes the only hope for them to live on . Later on , she is growing up, reaching adulthood and becoming a beauty young girl called Sara . Then Dr. Abbot (Rob Knepper) kidnaps Sara , and invites the good student Dean (Robin Dunne) to be his helper . Genetic perfection is no longer a dream . It's a nightmare . Beauty is only skin deep . This December, the mating game turns deadly .If you build it , they will come . For three million years, the human race has been at the top of the evolutionary ladder . Nothing lasts forever . Men cannot resist her. Mankind may not survive her. Two decades ago scientists sent a message to space...This... is the reply. Our time is up.

So-so Sci-fi movie with noisy action , stomach-churning thrills , chills, tension , intrigue , violence , state-of-art FX , strong sexual scenes , nudism and lots of gore and guts . It is a nice but ordinary thriller with no much sense , but it results to be pretty entertaining and amusing , following in the distinct wake of the Science Fiction movies of the Fifties . The usual secondary actor Rob Knepper gives a passable acting as the ambitious scientific who expects to develop a perfect DNA using alien's eggs and that's why he wants to win the Nobel Prize and other prizes , while Robin Dunne is acceptable as the young student who becomes involved in the experiment and share his research , along with the extremely gorgeous Sunny Mabrey in his film debut . Trio starring are well accompanied by passable support cast with some familar faces , such as : Amelia Cooke who gives some spicy bare scenes , Michael Warren , Bethune , Joel Stoffer , Cristopher Neame and brief appearance by Natasha Henstridge . Decent special effects but inferior than previous entry made by great technicians as Dennis Muren, Richard Edlund and based on the famous creature created by artist-designer H.R. Giger , all of them making fantastic and strange monsters .

It contains a mysterious and thrilling musical score by Elia Cmiral, a good musician expert on terror and dark atmosphere . As well as colorful but functional cinematography by Christian Sebaldt . This direct to video film was regularly directed by Brad Turner .This filmmaker is a fine craftsman usually working for Television , directing episodes from known TV series, such as : MacGyver, Next , Homeland , 24 , Hawai 5.0 , Take two , Shannara , Bull , Conviction , Marvel Shield Agents , Wayward Pines , Second chances , Falling Skies , Dare Devil , Legend, The last ship , Stalker , Invisibles , Psych , Bitten , Nikita , among others.

The trilogy is formed by Species I followed by two inferior sequels : the first entry , ¨Species¨ 1995 , by Roger Donaldson with Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker , Alfred Molina, Michelle Williams , Ben Kinsley ,Marg Helgenberger , concerning a group of scientific carry out an unenviable and relentless task of catching Sil . ¨Species 2¨ with Justin Lazard, George Dzunza, Marg Helgenberg , James Cromwell, in which scientists create a clone from the monster of the original film. And this ¨Species III¨, 2001 by Brad Turner with Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper and the gorgeous Sunny Mabrey.

Reminiscent of 50's sci-fi in that whomever wrote the script obviously drinks a lot, the acting doesn't always fit the scene being viewed, and there's a tendency to go right to T&A to keep you from noticing, which is fine by me but I noticed anyway. The movie has a pretty good visual look to it and the direction is adequate. However, the ending is nothing more than giving up for lack of anything better to do. As in, "I don't know what to do here so somebody better start walking off into the sunset." If what you wanted was to sit down and watch something that almost qualifies as science fiction and doesn't suck too badly, then you won't be disappointed.

All typical sci-fi B-movie elements make enough appearances in this third installment of 'Species'. It's got lots of creepy alien gore, gorgeous chicks who kick male ass, abundant nudity and the twitch of alien-human sexual tension. I risk to say that the story is actually better than the crap of Species II... interesting enough to keep the viewer in his seat till the end.

Otherwise as usual, acting is horrible, script likewise. They used some old footage of Natasha Henstridge as well. But the role of Sara could go to a more physically attractive actress than Sunny Mabrey... though it is my personal opinion.

I'm not saying the original 'Species' movie was a masterpiece. Anything revolving around an over-sexed alien running round trying to er 'reproduce' with as many men as possible is hardly going to be regarded as 'high art.' But, boy, was it hot fun back in the day. It had (somehow!) well-established actors among the cast and a creature designed by the same man who had come up with the look of the 'xenomorph' from the iconic 'Alien' franchise.

Then came the sequel. No, it wasn't as good as the original, but it was okay. If you had your sights set low enough you could still get some fun out of it. Now we come to 'part 3.' This one went straight to TV, not even deemed good enough for a mainstream theatrical release. And I can't say I'm surprised.

If you gauge how good a movie is by how much you want to check your mobile phone during its runtime, then you'll be scrolling through the social media site of your choice for just over ninety minutes. It really is just dull.

The original star of the first two movies (Natasha Henstridge) returns for the third chapter, but don't get too hopeful - her role is little more than a cameo and you could have probably got a similar looking actress to play the part and no one would have noticed. We have another rogue scientist trying to splice human and alien DNA and - guess what - it results in an attractive girl or two running round trying to keep her species alive - if you get what I mean.

Only this time the characters don't even come close to being likable and you won't really care about the fate of mankind if these people are the best we have to offer. Whereas before the alien effects looked genuinely creepy and if they could well have come from another world or dimension, now they're basically a man in a rubber suit jumping about the place while the camera tries to cut away quickly to disguise what they really are.

There's a bit of gore here and there, but it doesn't elevate the film at all. This is one film that could have once upon a time be considered part of a trash (but fun) B-movie franchise, yet has descended into just something that you probably shouldn't bother wasting your time with.

I have watched the first three one night in a row and it seems like this one the scriptwriters were seriously smoking something potent when they wrote the script to this.

You could argue it has somewhat logic to it all, and with the way the characters act, but the logic is like the sort of logic only the craziest bond villain would possibly have, or just Dr Evil logic.

For example the first moment of the movie has a college professor pretending to be an army officer just so he can steal the last surviving alien to take home to make a master pure alien race so he can win a Nobel prize? (I guess that said professor did not know that Nobel made the prize after inventing nitroglycerin, realising it was actually dangerous to mankind so created the Nobel prize specifically to reward scientists for making things that are good and a benefit for humankind) So how he thinks creating a pure race of alien that simply wants to destroy all human kind would win him this prize is way beyond me to understand?.

Now to get back above, why the army would also allow something so highly top secret and risky to be put in charge of and transported back to the base in the hands of someone who nobody didn't even know is beyond all rational logic to me too.

The only good thing about the movie in my opinion was the incredibly hot alien that comes out of nowhere in the final act just to be the final fight villain which obviously a film like this needed and clearly the filmmakers felt could not have been Sara as she was a very likable character so tacked on this other vicious Alien hot girl for solely that role.

Which by the way she came into the film by posting on the internet in the personals ads asking if anyone out there knows and can explain to her what alien DNA is, which our hero's roommate steals the info from his journal just so he can potentially get in on with the hot girl which surprisingly turns out to be a bad idea, you can tell I am not making this up as I doubt anyone could make this up bar the one writer of this movie.

Overall I felt it was an okay watch, the main alien girl was not a patch on Natasha Henstridge, but the incredibleness of the villain sort of made up for this. She should have been Sara though in my opinion as she was a better actor, had more edge to her and also was, in my opinion, much more attractive.

I will be watching 4 tomorrow.