Give these guy's a break, even the less capable actors throw there heart into this production. Plus the 'Bikini' clad babe role goes to Bali Rodriguez, Hubba Hubba. Once again despite her slightly awkward performance, her enthusiasm makes up for that. Hey, let's face it, screen-time with Bali Rodriguez could hardly be wasted. Also her make-up and costume are great for all the right reasons. I could go on and on about Bali Rodriguez of course, who wouldn't enjoy that. There were other actors in it, and kind of like an illusion, if you stare really hard at the screen for 20 minutes, you start to notice them and not her. Then like a Random Dot Stereogram they shift out of focus and you can only see her again. I digress, back to the other stuff... the jungle location is beautiful, the plot engages just enough to keep you interested. There is enough pace to carry the film. The sound and lighting are good throughout. The plot twist at the end 'though pretty obvious' is delivered well without added cheese. Are some of the scenes a little too long, yes... is some of the acting less than 1st class, yes. But for a $1,000,000 I'd be happy if I could produce this. Finally the right people die, and the right people live, but crucially.... the characters are developed enough to care about what happens to them.Hmm, what else, oh yes, I should have mentioned for all those Bali Rodriguez fans that Bali Rodriguez is in it! Which she is! What's that? I already mentioned it! Oh right? Er... well I guess I am done but for the scores then.So for the film I'd give 'eight' out of 'ten' (if you like B Movies), and out of 'ten' I'd definitely give Bali Rodriguez 'one'.

Aliens are invading the earth, and winning the war. Several 'arks' are leaving earth to ensure the survival of human beings elsewhere. Two of them, the 'Isaac Newton' and the 'Albert Einstein', crash on a jungle planet. It looks like paradise only at the first glance, but actually it's full of hostile aliens. The survivors have to fight together against invisible enemies, the so-called Chameleons, supported only reluctantly by a local humanoid race.Adrian Paul as Frank Baum plays the military leader of the team, who was on the 'Albert Einstein' only by accident. Richard Grieco as Captain Crowe doesn't have a good role: he is carried around injured half of the time. Bali Rodriguez as green skinned alien woman Lea is a winner. Gray Hawks as TIM, an android in the tradition of Star Trek's Data, handles the difficult part very well, not too robotic.This is actually a nice B movie, a survival challenge against various aliens, and although most of them are humans painted in funny colors, they also added a few CGI creatures from giant spiders to giant lizards, creative for the low budget.

I will get right to the point. IMDb states that the estimated budget for this film was $350,000. If that is correct, someone stuffed most of that cash in their pocket because it sure wasn't spent on real production costs.This film has the look, feel, and sound of a film school project. The photography, cinematography, sound, sound effects, visual effects, and acting are so below par that it is hard to take this film seriously. I could point out specifics but that would take much too long since there is very little about this film that actually works.Basically, start at the beginning, the script; terrible. The actors; amateurs. The photography; shaky and uninspired. The direction; film school project that got a D.

The forlorn bury themselves in romantic movies for the purpose of feeding a love-starved existence. Testosterone junkies crave action movies to get the blood pumping in their dull life. Science Fiction and Fantasy are my opiates and my toxins. I overdose on them because they offer an escape while challenging my mind to justify the laws of physics ingrained in me from my classroom days. They can make anything up and require little to prove it, yet it wraps together so we can make some sense of it by exercising our imagination. Science Fiction means the future, the future means survival. Tossing in adventure or forbidden alien love satisfies my other needs. I am not so complex.We bury ourselves in a storyline, even if only for 90 minutes. Some movies drag on, showing things which do not add to the story, but fluff it up enough to call it a movie. Greedy executives cut away what the director or writer dreamed, in the name of adding an extra show to the daily rotation for quicker profits. This movie suffered from neither malady. Everything presented was necessary to the plot. While the dialog was not Wadsworth prose or a Shakespearean sonnet, I was not disappointed.Armchair critics have high expectations and pan movies in a lemming-like fashion instead of thinking for themselves and appreciating it for what it is; entertainment to fill a slow day or slower night. While not "Lucas" or "Spielberg", the director did a great job. Scenes were in focus, and their tiny budget would barely cover the catering costs for a major production, let alone exceptional special effects, yet this movie was not defined by computer assisted enhancements. The clarity of the voices meant we could all enjoy the film without turning on subtitles which is a plus so we were not distracted from the movie.They could have put on a cheesy lens filter to turn the flora purple or pink, or added plastic plants of similar tones, but sticking with the truth made the ending that much more credible. That lack of a grandiose budget was probably the ultimate reason we were not over-exposed to large colonies of aliens, or chases through buildings and aircraft filled skies. The plot was strengthened by it.In this story, Earth was in its death-throes after being conquered by an alien race. Lifeboats (space ships) were launched to send humanity to different planets to find a new home. The fact that there were at least 2 distinct Earth vessels that arrived on the same planet opened up a question which went unanswered until the end. There were the good characters, and protective military characters, and of course the selfish "I don't care if everyone else dies, so long as I live" characters.These humans from different departure points met up when the ship we were watching at the beginning crash-landed where the other ship's survivors were being held prisoner (convenient!) We were also introduced to two different alien races, one light-skinned that was visible, the other a translucent (like "Predator") that was mostly invisible. The first was just trying to stay alive, and both they and the Earth people were being shot down by some electrical pulse energy weapon. In the process of staying alive, one of the visible aliens became part of the human group. She had been a prisoner with the other Earth people and knew some English. She was a survivalist, and very pretty with skin colored like the surrounding jungle.The Star Trek "Data" styled "TIM", (an android) was semi-helpful but not spouting robotic laws as defined by Asimov. His path was not to become more human, but merely to protect those he was with, even if he died doing it. There was nothing cliché in his role since logic dictates if we could build a robot to help on an alien world, it would be like him.They ran to survive, but the goal became to leave the planet, and in order to do that, they had to recover a craft they spotted in the first five minutes (while crash-landing of all things). Then they had to get the locals to combine with them against the chameleons while the greedy were making their own plans to take over. And let us not forget about the forbidden alien love that was starting to blossom. I must admit, for a camouflage-tinted woman, the love interest of the main character (Adrian Paul) was beautiful. She had a similar appearance to a Sci-Fi favorite of mine, Summer Glau, like maybe a younger sister, or cousin.To conclude, I often purchase movies like this in the $5 DVD pile and I will collect this one as well. It was far more interesting than Outerworld or many of the others that have appeared as Original Movies on the Sci-Fi Channel. My point is if we support what they put out, they will be encouraged to continue producing, and really good Independent Films will be the result. I hate reality shows. The movie "Idiocracy" points out where we are heading with them. Lol. Not every movie will be a Blockbuster, but there will be some entertainment. It beats 12 naked people on an island armed with spears and monitored 24/7 for our (gag) enjoyment.I am an easier grader than most, and if something is 5 stars or above (out of 10), it is worth seeing, even if only once. I will watch this one several more times for sure.