You can't expect more in a direct-to-video grade Z movie than a terrible script and some bad acting. Still, it's Bruce Campbell, and he is good for a few laughs.He and Renée O'Connor (Gabrielle from "Xena: Warrior Princess") return from space after 40 years and find aliens have taken over and enslaved the humans. It was fun watching them bite off heads.Campbell escapes and leads a rag tag bunch to defeat the aliens. You know how this will work out. Lots of aliens lost their heads thinking they can beat the humans when they are fired up.Another fun time with Bruce.

Let me preface what I am about to write with the admission that I could not make it past the first 15 minutes. The fact I gave this a "2" rating is only because I am a sap and cannot bring myself to give it a 1 (though I am not sure it deserves a 1). You could not convince me that the director / writer / producer did not simply rip off the plot of Planet of the Apes and then make it 1,000 times worse. It's one thing to be inspired by an artist or artistic creation. It's OK to be inspired by someone else's work; but to rip it off and then wreck it is almost unforgivable. Just as someone will take a mile if you give them an inch, so will a director take a few million dollars and make a $30,000 movie (OK not sure that made sense, but you know what I am getting at, I hope). Forget water boarding as a means of torture- just make political prisoners sit through the first 15 minutes of this film and they would tell you anything you want to know.

Well, I'have to confess : My DVD collection is pretty complete with "classics" and I'm bound to look for very bad Sci-fi or horror B-movies for some late-night entertainment.Alien apocalypse is certainly fitting in this "niche", and without the presence of Bruce Campbell, I would certainly have overlooked it.The movie can be summarized like this : Simple and over-predictable plot, taking inspiration from recent movies like Independence day, battlefield earth (Yikes!), star-gate,...Le FX are, er, limited to bad CGI aliens (with bad animation, looking like they were coming from a 1990-era CD-Rom game). There are occasional explosions, which is obviously the same filmed from different angles.The acting is very bad. More like a college end-of-year revue. And it's especially visible when some actors interact with the handful of "profesionnals" actors (like Campbell). One fine example is the young "warrior" woman whom you can hardly hear during dialogs.Costumes are cheap and really stupids (White Space suit/uniform complete with Shoes with gaiter closed by long shoelaces anyone ?) and most of the cast are wearing fake beards and wigs obviously bought from a prank store (sometimes the hairs are not from the same color than the beard).Decors and locations are limited to woods or desert (looking more like an abandoned quarry. You can spot wheels threads here and there).And the more fun are the plot holes : Every one has forgotten everything about civilization in twenty years (but most of the cast is aged 30-40years old). Superior aliens that have subdued the whole planet in a snap are living in a wooden shed and have no trace of spaceship or computers or advanced means of communication. Moreover they seems to be killed very easily although everyone seems convinced that they are immortals. The "resistance" is killing a lot of aliens and guards during the uprising, but they stick with the bows, ignoring the rifles and "laser rods" left by the dead aliens.And finally, they spent most of the movie looking for the "president" which is allegedly alive and forming an army (a kind of legend, giving hope to the captive). It appears that the president is living in a garden shed, less than one day of walk from the saw mill, and still has the whole congress with him (still wearing suits 20years after the attack although the "captives" are wearing animal furs). Very, very funny... It was worth the 2euros I paid for it (found in a bargain bin in a department store)

But what can I say....it had Bruce Campbell in it and and the aliens had green blood! The special effects were very poor, but amusing, the acting ranged from Monty python over the top poor to campy to very sarcastic from B. Campbell. Still Bruce just oozes charisma it a very weird way and he is always watchable.The dialog is corny at best.The violence with the exception of a shooting near the beginning is all cartoon-like in its execution.I really can not recommend this to mainstream viewers, they will not like it. But (B)Si-Fi fans, Bruce Campbell fans and people who like very silly waste of time movies will enjoy this.