When I sat down to watch "Alien Lockdown" (aka "Creature"), I hadn't even heard about the movie, nor did I even know who starred in it. I will say that when I saw John Savage's name on the screen, I felt that there was potential for the movie being adequate.It should be said that "Alien Lockdown" is a low budget movie. And while that is being said, I will also have to say that I have seen far worse low budget sci-fi horror movies than this one.The movie is about some alien creature going on a rampage in an isolated facility, and a group of highly trained soldiers are sent in to take care of the situation. However, they come to learn some dark truths and find that all are not playing on the same team.The creature or alien in the movie was a strange hybrid of three already famous movie monsters; the xenomorph (from the "Alien" franchise), the Yautja (the predator creature from the "Predator" franchise) and the Brundlefly (from "The Fly"). And truth be told, then it actually worked out well enough, despite it not really being all that menacing or having quite enough time on the screen.As for the acting in the movie, well people were doing good jobs with their given roles, and it was indeed John Savage (playing Dr. Woodman) and Michelle Goh (playing Talon) whom stood out as the most memorable performances in the movie.There is a good amount of action throughout the movie, but it just doesn't make up for the low budget feel to the movie.All in all, a less than average sci-fi horror movie, but it is worth watching a single time if you have nothing else at hand.

Alien Lockdown starts as high ranking military geezer General Anslow (Martin Kove) orders a bunch of marines into a top secret Government laboratory to hunt down & kill an escaped genetically created creature that had been developed to be used in battle & become the ultimate predator. Commander Talon (Michelle Goh) & her team enter the isolated facility & find two survivors, ex-military convict Charlie Dryfus (James Marshall) & the scientist who created the creature Dr. Woodman (John Savage). Dr. Woodman has sabotaged all the facilities major operating systems, he deliberately set the creature free & plans on protecting his creation. Talon & her team must kill the creature & clean up any loose ends before the facility is blown to kingdom come in 12 hours...This made-for-TV sci-fi horror film was directed by Tim Cox & is yet another Nu Image creature feature although to be fair it's a decent enough time waster that isn't anything special but isn't too bad & it's better than a lot of Nu Image's generic creature feature flicks. The script by Ross Helford & T.M. Van Ostrand is basically an Aliens (1986) rip-off, you know in writing comments for horror & sci-fi films it's incredible how many times I've written the words 'Aliens rip-off' which says just how influential James Camerons brilliant film actually is considering the amount of other films that blatantly steal from it. In the case of Alien Lockdown there's the troop of American marines, the initial battle where many are ambushed & picked off unawares while their screams are heard over the intercoms by the other character's, there's the scene when the creature crawls through the ceiling as a means of surprise as well as numerous other scenes which remind heavily of Aliens. To be fair this moves along at a reasonable pace, it never bores to the point of distraction, the character's are OK & there are some nice moments in it. Alien Lockdown is nothing original but I still quite liked it all the same.Director Cox does a very good job here & the film is actually pretty stylish as it's lit in cool blue & green hues which look visually interesting. He manages to generate some tension, there's a decent atmosphere & some reasonable action scenes. The creature itself looks very, very good & is best described as an Alien with it's elongated head & exo-skeleton crossed with a Predator with it's claw like mandibles on it's face in particular. Most of the special effects for it are created with a man in a rubber suit which I always prefer to rubbishy CGI computer effects, there are also loads of baby creatures which CGI is used for although to be fair they look very good as well. There's some gore here, there are various dead bodies in different states of mutilation like having been torn in half & having limbs missing. There is a shot of the creature eating someones intestines & luckily the filmmakers weren't shy with the fake blood.Technically the film is fine & considering it's a Nu Image production it's rather impressive with nice cinematography, decent sets & neat special effects. As usual for these Nu Image productions this was shot in Sofia in Bulgaria. The acting is alright but nothing special & it's not like the actor's had a lot to work with, Martin Kove is the 'name' actor.Alien Lockdown is a decent cross between Aliens & Predator (1987) & while it isn't anything original it's perfectly passable sci-fi horror entertainment, it is what it is & doesn't try to be anything else. Worth watching if you can find it cheap or catch it on TV.

I was happy to see a new Sci Fi flick with John Savage in it, but I unfortunately only watched a half hour of it before I became disinterested. >From what I saw of it, a scientist (Savage) was using an alien for some experiment when it got loose, thus the reason for the "Lockdown". The rest that I saw was when some commandos came in to try to contain the situation. I immediately became bored as I watched and waited for these professionals to do their job, but it was all a bunch of dark corners, smoky hallways and people disappearing. The alien appeared early on in the movie but I don't know what the heck it was. I just know that I was disappointed in this movie and do not have any desire to watch it again.

As a veteran viewer of all Nu Image B movie crapola this was a very entertaining movie. The story is not that special, everyone that was renting flicks in the 80's and early 90's can dream a plot about an underground facility , a monster and a crack team of soldiers. However for B movie and certainly NU IMAGE standards the production values are high (sets, fx) and the cast is rather good. Especially the female lead that is convincing. Of course one could wonder what a James Marshall or John Savage do in these kind of movies. Monster is a ripoff of predator but the twist later on in the film with the beastie is rather nice. It is worth a rent and a view, you can do a lot worse with the infamous one word titles from nu image ( it is called Creature in the Netherlands) that seem to specialize nowadays in big ass creatures and is actually competing with UFO films in the race to be the king of the B movies.