Etat de siège

'Alien Siege' is more Sci Fi channel dreck, churned out by the UFO film company in Eastern Europe. I have to wonder why I actually bother anymore with these no budget cable movies that Sci Fi channel seems to put out every month. They show zero creativity, poor acting and the hokey computer graphics and stock 3D models just add insult to injury. The plot of Alien Siege is entirely derivative of alien invasion films like 'V' and 'Earth - Final Conflict' and brings nothing new to the genre. The only part worth watching is the trailer, which packs more thrills than the actual movie.

Maybe next time Sci Fi could give the quarter million dollar budget to some independent director to make a low budget science fiction movie with some original ideas, rather than waste it on yet another Saturday night disappointment like this one. The existence of a great low budget SF movie like 'Primer' is a perfect demonstration of why 'Alien Blood' is truly a cultural invasion, with or without aliens.

I've learned my lesson. I was going to skip this movie until I checked it out on IMDb. Wow, three people gave it a pretty good review. Maybe it's worth a chance. After watching the movie, it now appears these people had some vested interest in posting other than a fair review of the movie. Take, for instance, Jon H Ochiai. After I saw this terrible movie, I wondered who in the world would recommend an obvious stinker like this. So I took a look at some of Mr. Ochiai's other reviews. This guy appears to be someone with classical training as a movie reviewer, except there are no bad recommendations in his voluminous collection of reviews. I'm guessing there must be some cottage industry for people that can't land a steady gig for a real media outlet, so they pump these movies while they wait for an honest job.

Lesson one: Sci-Fi makes terrible movies. I'll not watch another premier.

Lesson two: There are people that pump these movies just like they have people pumping stocks on Yahoo. Though I still have trouble envisioning the economic model (are they really paid, or like the bad guys in these movies, are they just pure evil).

Lesson three: There are no low budget movies with four writers that are worth watching.

Among the hundreds of watched movies this must be one of the worst.. Pretty much everything is plainly wrong with it. No offense to people trying to make low budget movies, SciFi or not, au contraire, this movie is a mold in the eye for those who's REALLY trying to make something good with whatever budget the might have. Script, directing, dialog, acting, lightning, camera, CGI and again.. the SCRIPT, they must have been drunk on Kulku. If U against all odds found "V" to be entertaining prepare for a amazingly if possible even worse ripoff. Sorry guys (director Robert Stadd, writers Bill Lundy, Paul Salamoff) but plz don't quit your day jobs, OK. The only feeling left after watching this *hrmftpp* "movie" is anger, anger due to dragging SciFi in the dirt..

A silly little outing that tells of an alien attack on our planet. Sure, the story is epic in scope, but on a budget that allows for only a couple of shoot-outs in the woods, it doesn't really work.

The moment I saw the aliens in white makeup with little radio receivers glued to their faces I knew I was in for a cheesy, sub-STAR TREK style outing. Execrable CGI effects, consisting of laser beams, UFOs and people disintegrating within 'blood bags', are not to be taken seriously.

The cast, headed by the wooden Brad Johnson, fare no better. Indeed, one of the only reasons I tuned in was to see Carl Weathers; he's bagged a minor role playing a tough army general. Weathers kicks ass - the rest of this film does not.

We're left with a concoction of silly effects, low-rent action scenes and lots of dull pondering over right and wrong while a dozen or so plot holes are generally glazed over. Not the Science Fiction channel's greatest hour, then...

An alien race invades earth and holds it hostage in exchange for millions of human lives to save their species from a lethal virus. How it's decided is that people are chosen for this fate by some sort of lottery system organised by the world government, but a scientist, Steven Chase tries to save the life of his daughter, who has been accepted. He joins a resistance and they go out of their way to fight off the harvest.

"Alien Blood" is a cheap looking TV feature that's simply very lackadaisical and dead flat when it comes to the thrills. This story is one man's quest to save his daughter's life, and by the way maybe the rest of mankind along the way. Reading a lot of the reviews and I see it takes quite a bagging. Although I don't think it's extremely awful, but still it's bad. Plain and simple, the material was just far from stimulating, despite a decent concept. What we ended up with it is far from clever and unpredictable. The film's production looked glossy, but came across as quite shallow and mostly unexciting. When it gets going it just seems to rush on by, but it doesn't cover too much ground behind some workable facets that are brought up. It might think there's some sort of deep message within its material, but all I got was extreme corn and laughable dialogues. The insipid dribble they fumble out will choke you to death! Oh my, it was way too talkative with such wretched details and not to BRIGHT actions (just wait for the last 10 minutes!).

The direction is by the numbers and performances are pretty stilted. Brad Johnson was terribly uninspired in the lead role as Steven Chase and the foxy Erin Ross plays his daughter Heather. Yep, even Carl Weathers didn't get up too much. Watch out for the stiff looking aliens that look like they are dressed up in white business shirts and black trousers. Special effects were fine I guess for such a production, but they can only do so much and it wasn't enough here.

An undemanding Sci-fi yarn that pretty much had me yawning more often.