Plot:An alien creature, bloodthirsty and pregnant, goes on a violent killing spree after managing to escape from the infamous air force base in Nevada. A hardboiled female scientist and the local sheriff take up the hunt through the desert in an attempt to prevent more murders, and to catch it before the greedy folk from a nearby freak show manage to get their exploitative little hands on it.My awesome opinion:This movie's rating, presently at 2.1, is quite a bit misleading, I think. Sure, the plot's just a loose chain of contrivances for the colorful cast of characters to fall prey to the monster, the characters themselves are total caricatures, and the acting triggers the occasional cringe reflex, but overall, this really wasn't so bad. One thing that I very much enjoyed was that, just like with their previous movie "El Chupacabra", the makers of "Alien 51" have largely abstained from the use of CGI. Now whether this was a production design decision, or just a financial necessity, I do not know, but the end result is an alien that's quite obviously just an actor in a rubber costume. Some may perceive this as silly, but personally, I find it relatively refreshing to still find some practical effects among the influx of recent indie horror/sci-fi flicks that rely almost exclusively on computer generated content. It's just nice to see a guy in a rubber suit every now and then. Eh, that didn't sound right.Anyway, in closing, "Alien 51" is a shameless, unapologetic b-movie that certainly knows its place in the cinematic hierarchy. It never tries to be anything more than just a cheap, Direct-to-DVD monster flick, and if that's all you're after, you could do a whole lot worse than this.

Why can't I give this movie 0 out of 10?Oooops I just called it a "movie". I did not mean to do that.The script is bad. The filming is bad. The casting is bad. The acting is bad, although I can see how some actors lost their professionalism and just went through it almost eyes closed for the money. Even simple little things like the audio overdub while Sam and Blondie drive out to meet the whiskey maker is something they can't do right. Both actors sound like they're reading it for the first time, both loathe it and neither of them are going to repeat it so the director is stuck with one pass in an acoustic environment that does fit a moving car.I do not think any one got paid a whole lot for this movie, and it is reasonably clear to me that you do not start out wanting to make a movie like this. But it will become such a movie if youDo not hire proper screenwriters. So many things wrong with the plot.Do not get actors who can act well enough. Those who can't can get killed right away. None of the characters act convincingly.Do not cast properly. Blondie is how old and she is the one who grew the monster in a lab? When? In high school?Get the music so cheap you cannot fit any of it to any scene. Nothing really fits well, but most of it sounds OK, so you're getting distracted all the time.Get a crew who have never worked a camera before. I don't know who they are, but this lot might have owed the directors a favor. The best way to complement the favor would be to not turn up. Maybe their salary is getting their name on the end creds.The only redeeming quality of the film is that you can turn the audio of and fast forward to watch the peroxide blonde who mysteriously cannot get a tan in that outfit. Whiel drooling over her you suddenly realize she is played by nice looking actress, who is portraying a girl who walks in the same clothes two days in a row - no one needs a girl like that.Would have been OK if they'd just gone ahead and made a porn movie. That's right. They got everything so cheasy you'd expect it to be the set of a porn movie. If you cannot afford to write a good script, get the right people and who can act, get a crew that can make a movie, then they should have made a porn movie, it would undoubtedly have been first takes all along, which it looks to be already, and make more people able to get through it: In 3 sittings over 1 month I managed to get about 59-60 minutes into it (no longer calling it a 'movie'). And I am not going to watch the rest. Ever. I was thinking of picking this one up as I saw a US copy on DVD used just before Christmas and the store owner did not know the movie. I now know enough about the movie to say it is a good ting I let my Peer-To-Peer program get this online and I can watch it for free, this is another DVD I will buy to find it is total crap. So spending money for this, perhaps in the presence of friends and/or family was not a concern. And will not be. Ever.I will be deleting this one and write it on my list of films to get from that place I found it, as NOT TO BUY THAT FILM. Also tell the store owner to price it lower. Like same price as a single empty DVD box. Hopefully someone can use the box.-Mikkel

One of those movies that misses out on having a flat 1.0 rating only because the few members of the cast and crew who were willing to admit to being involved came on here to vote, and not enough other people will ever see it to drown out those votes in a well-earned avalanche of 1's.It is difficult to express the degree of awfulness involved here -- there is not a single aspect of this movie that is anything but just terrible. Its amazing you make something like this and actually go ahead and release it. If I were responsible I wouldn't show it to my friends, let alone the world at large. It even failed to do the bad movie wraparound thing where a stupid film becomes entertainingly hilarious just to laugh at. No, just bad. And weird. And boring. And stupid. Somebody really needs to write the Department of Homeland Security and get the directors deported before they ever do something like this again.

Well, at least the story following THAT headline would be worth watching. This was, instead, about 80 minutes of unintelligible drivel, filled with the same trite dialog, cheesy acting, and inept direction you would expect from a rousing episode of "Joker's Wild," the game show.This "movie" ties with the Brain Damage (or is it Brain Dead) morons who did Abomination, as the most awful, boring, stupid, bad, inane detritus of the film industry. It's movies like this that cause the horror genre as a whole, to be widely ignored and thought lesser of. It's movies like this which are the sole reason why horrors don't make it to the Oscars, and are widely not respected by the general public nor the film industry. Because of crap like this, horrors are, by expectation, inferior films. And one of the other reviewers pointed out that this monster was the same monster from El Chupacabra. I rented that movie, just to see, and you know? I believe it IS the same creature, even though El Chupacabra was SUPPOSED to be based on a true story. Makes you wonder about the whole industry, doesn't it?This "film" don't get a rating.