Attack of the Unknown
- 2020
- 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
3.1/10
6.8K
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A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.
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- 3 wins & 1 nomination total
Robert Donavan
- Weller
- (as Robert Donovan)
John Molinaro
- Blackjack
- (as Johnny Molinaro)
Mia ScozzaFave
- Axel
- (as Mia Scozzafave)
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This film is so bad it is good, the cast must have been laughing from start to finish. it gave them something to do o ver a weekend.
An alien invasion is happening. Los Angeles is being destroyed. Buildings are being shot by alien weaponry. A "SWAT" team sees the aliens, and tries to fight them. Their bullets have no effect; and they lose an officer in the fight. After taking refuge in a remote police station, some of them gather for a quiet moment. "I have some bad news," says one them, "I was diagnosed with cancer."
Confused on the topic and aliens scene is totally hilarious and low end visual effect. For aliens theme, I expect more exciting but this one totally boring. It's a huge issue that didn't meet audience appetite. No thank you ......
I don't know about you, but when I watch a movie, I expect a semblance of realism. This movie was bad. I don't mean like " oh the acting was terrible".
No I mean the script of this movie should have never been greenlighted.
I can't begin to tell you the amount of just inept weird, stupid things that happened at the start of this movie.
I can give 3 distinct things that I would expect anyone who has watched an action film to at least understand. At bare minimum.
1. A police SWAT team, storming a building, are going to wear body armor.
2. A drug kingpin doing a deal for 5 billion dollars, is probably not doing it in an abandoned warehouse on a couple of barrels smoking angel dust with literally ZERO people watching the perimeter during said meeting.
3. No SWAT Team sniper is going to be charging into a room and trying to shoot a sniper rifle in an enclosed room.
Like, at bare minimum, these are basic strategy, basic screenwriting types of things. They chose these things either because budget was low, or they literally just didn't think about them. If its low budget, that's a poor excuse. If they didn't think about it, then stop making action films. I mean come on guys. Even fake body armor would've looked better than them wearing the faux vest and t-shirt with SWAT emboldened on the back.
Douglas Tait's acting ability is better than what he did here, rubbish performance, along with several other cast member. I bet that Robert LaSardo wasn't happy to be in this movie, he kept the movie watchable. WTF is it with SWAT shooting at aliens and unloading clip after clip into their bodies, shoot them in the head, that was frustrating to watch. Anyway, a once off movie experience you may wish you didn't have.
Did you know
- TriviaThe plot device of aliens using human blood for medicine was pulled from a story written by writer/director Brandon Slagle in High School called "Blood is the Cure".
- ConnectionsReferences Assaut (1976)
- SoundtracksChinastep
written by Justin Collier
performed by Justin Collier
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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