Invasion Planet Earth

Still have 20 min left of the movie and can't decide whether to watch to the end or just gouge my eyes out.

The story of getting the film made is very inspiring, but not relevant to whether the film is any good or not. And sadly, it isn't. It's woeful in almost every regard.

The overall story is an interesting idea, but everything from the terrible script, the uniformly awful supporting cast, the stagey direction/editing and the mostly cheap VFX make you wonder why they even bothered.

If given the right resources maybe the director could come up with something impressive, but this is not a good calling card.

As much as I love science fiction, this movie - rated at 3.3 - is overrated precisely by 3.3. I gave it 1 star just because there is 0 star rating. I don't know where to start: acting is bad, script is even worse, special effects are laughable. I would understand if it was primary school project but commercial movie production? Really?

Thomas Dunn is having a terrible day fit for a soap opera. Full of cliches, careless editing and continuity errors this is less a film and more of a red headed stepchild of Ed Wood.

We watch the story unfold with special effects so poor, they qualify as neither. Acting is also pretty painful for the most part with performers struggling to overcome a clunky and predictable story and a script that feels like a chainsaw lobotomy.

The value in Invasion Planet Earth is for film students looking to see how never to make a movie.

The story does leave (quite) a bit to be desired and the editing could have been a lot better which started me skipping through the film after about 35 minutes. I tried to pretend I was watching a 70's sci-fi but that didn't help. I understand that some people worked hard to get this movie made and I understand the difficulties they had to overcome and I like the concept of the story but the end result is just not watchable nor believable. Maybe rewrite the script into a book (after some necessary changes to the story)?