E.L.E

Impressive work on the script by what I assume was a team of 13-year old writers.

So we have a Crimson Tide situation turned into an alien invasion scenario.

The family dynamic of the protagonist initially makes absolutely no sense, then it turns interesting when the focus shifts in the sister's boyfriend and his background. Then turns back to predictable and cheesy towards the end.

The confrontation with the hard ass base commander also mixes some overused tropes with some interesting points by the two characters, but in the end is never resolved. Or if it is I was too bored to follow by that time.

....i have never seen a movie/serie this bad!!!!

Actors TERRIBLE!! Plot HORRIBLE, you get defcon 1, you have to launche a NUKE at the whitehouse and the people in command are like lovers who have a fight becouse one of them cheated.

There face expressions, how they behave the way they talk ETC is just horrible. I have seen a lot of B and even C grade movies/series but this is for sure a Z grade.

Every second i watched my brain got errors i could not follow what was happening becouse it was sooo badly played.

And the base looked more like a windows helpdesk in india then an actual militairy base Stop production and DO NOT CONTINU....

I'm going to be brutally sincere and say: did anyone actually think this is a movie? There is no plot, or if it is is soooo poor you don't get it until the end when you are informed that earth is under alien attack. Poor poor poor... But what made me very angry were the subtitles of this movie in Italian . Did you actually pay for someone to translate? Ask your money back. This is the worse translated subtitles I have ever read .

The guy's name is Chip and the translation was "potato chips". "This is not a drill!" - and the translation is "Questo non è un TRAPANO"? - drill translated as in the tool to make holes!

And the rest of it is as bad as the above. Ridiculous! Translated subtitles make no sense, not even google translator would make them so bad.

Guess they were wrong after all. This was a drill... for a movie.

E. L. E. Is one of those short-lived series that were going to be the next big thing. A couple of ten minute short episodes to consume on your phone. But like the rest of them they all crop up now as 'movies' on Prime and the like. Stuck together this one added up to 43 minutes which is very short by any standard for a movie.

All that said, the premise is quite clever. It is filmed in one continuous take. Like 1917 there might be some clever edit cuts in there somewhere but they weren't obvious. That makes me rate the actors as their performance was decent anyway but doing it under that additional pressure is impressive.

The location plays the part of a military base well. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a disused base. The set decoration in the command centre is very cheap looking sadly which detracts from the authenticity. Shop-bought laptops and yellow walkie talkies that looked like toys.

The story had legs but too many plot holes. The end was a bit disappointing as it didn't explain or conclude much.

Another half hour, a stronger script with an ending, and a bigger set budget and this could have been really good.

I don't care what the nay-sayers are saying. Did they apply objectivity? Or were their thoughts ruled by subjectivity? Is the movie far-fetched? Possibly. But maybe the critics didn't notice it's an example of cold hard reason vs caring emotion? Or, perhaps they failed to notice the dark bureaucracy vs the ever-present humanity of living life in that kind of environment and the stress that that would cause? And lastly, it's very likely the detractors of this short but effective movie failed to pick up on the fact that (aside from the one commercial snuck into it) it's a professionally-made 43 minutes and 30 seconds long, uninterrupted, unedited scene?