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First things first, there is way too much buildup before the zombies even enter the picture; the first two acts are wasted on insufferable dialogue and a bland buildup that see's our leads engaging in the typical teenage drama that surrounds their attempts to attain said drug and distribute it to the awaiting masses.

Secondly, I think I saw my grandfather at that "rave". Talk about the most random assortment of individuals to ever comprise a rave ever. I am pretty sure the producers went to the closest Aldi Supermarket in the UK and offered pennies on the dollar for anyone that wanted to be a zombie for 10 minutes.

The movie is set at an arcade where some young adults are gathered for an after-hours party for one of the employees. Unfortunately, her manager, who has a personal screening room on-site at the arcade, decides to watch his Steamboat Willie reel. Doing this causes him to be possessed by... something... for... reasons. He then dons his vintage Mickey Mouse mask, which wasn't a thing in 1928, and starts killing everybody.

The Mouse Trap includes clips of Steamboat Willie, both over the opening credits and during a couple of scenes in the film itself. Initially, I wondered if perhaps these scenes were put in the film to make viewers aware of details in the short, in case it'd been a while since they'd seen it. If these moments were going to become relevant later, this would be a simple way of making sure people understood what was happening.

I viewed Invasion Earth this year. In 2022. The same year of mass protests in my home country, when millions of people marched in protest of the militarization of the police and said police's killings of unarmed civilians. Do you see now why portraying the mass slaughter of civilians as a good thing comes across as tasteless? I'm certain the movie did not mean to come across this way: the filming apparently wrapped in May of 2019, long before the protests began. But given the context of what's been happening in the world, The Blackout: Invasion Earth has already aged like milk left out in the sun. There are certainly good things about Invasion Earth, but I can't in good conscience recommend it.