Alpha Code

Despite the occasional glowing 8-10 star reviews, believe the negative reviews. This movie is pure tripe. It's very obviously not based on a true story-- it's as fanciful as they come. This is basic alien abduction with quite a bit of fictional nonsense thrown in for good measure.

While it maintains an air of mystery 2/3 of the way through (making one think it might wind up being a good movie), the last third is a nonsensical, ridiculous premise that one would have to be uber-gullible to believe. The explanation is convoluted, absurd, and ties nothing together.

In short, this is simply a poorly-made movie that relies on a claim of being a true story-- and Denise Richards-- to carry the film. This lacks all the elements of a well-made film. I don't often give a film 2 stars unless it's really bad, but this didn't deserve 3. Alien UFO abduction / whatever cow plop.

The opening claim to be a true story probably spoiled the film for me it is quite obviously not , it sort of spoiled what it actually is a half decent science fiction story .

Yes The story has been done before and there are lots of bits stolen from other much better sci-fi films but I quite enjoyed it most of the actors did a decent job and a lot of the special effects or cgi were fairly decent however there is for me at least no reason to watch it again and the ending was pretty naff but There were a couple of plus points for the film some very pretty scenery and some really nice cars on show , worth one viewing for sci fi fans.

I like most films about aliens, and thought i'd check this out, which i normally wouldn't based o the dire review score of 3.6, but i have 2 say it was ok to decent, certainly not 3.6. It was worth a watch which with so many dire terrible pointless movies around, is actually a recommendation, as i give most films about 20 minutes to get me interested,or there off. it deserves a 5 and many sci fi folk may quite like it.

The Men in Black, they are excelent in this film. Their facial prosthetics were outstanding, just making them look normal enough to perhaps be human, but, maybe not :) Riveting lines for them and ideal acting from them. The make up people in this are good regarding the MIB design.

Confusion is an issue with the rest of the film, as is bad acting, terrible sound mix, I mean really bad sound, so much sound missing it ruined the film, plus highly distracting ADR.

The shot framing is poor, casting fair to poor, direction lapse, and stylistic continuity across the film is poor.

The story, well it was a good concept but very hard to swallow because the film didn't suspend disbelief very well. Comes across like a film student's first film's rough cut before the editing began.

Good sci-fi, not pop culture sci-fi, but more pure sci-fi. Not exactly a star wars budget, but still an interesting story. Pulp sci-fi.