Alien Siege
Alien Siege
| 01 January 2005 (USA)
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A scientist fights to save his daughter when she is chosen as one of the eight million human beings who are kept hostage by an alien species in order to save their planet.

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Joe Bridge

The next plan from outer space (plan 10? 11? 12 1/2?) involves a small group of aliens with white eyebrows. This helps the viewer to understand that they are aliens and not human, although many old HUMANS I have seen do indeed have white eyebrows. Oh well, they tried. Though they come from a distant galaxy, they somehow are able to use (primarily) human blood to heal their illness, and this involves harvesting humans with the government's permission. They hold lotteries, apparently, to see who is going.The makeup is atrocious - some sort of bluish price-reduction sticker on their cheeks and some sort of mossy-coloured squashed play-doh stuck on their neck. I almost expected to see newspaper hats. One Adams-family-like alien talks in a completely different manner and accent than the others. His voice also has such a high, hissy lisp, it is almost above the range of human hearing. I had to really focus and turn the volume up every time he spoke. It was akin to an animated snake reading Gothic poetry. Somehow, he even lisped letters like "b" and "k"...The most hilarious scene in this movie in when the alien tapes a girl's mouth shut with duct tape. This utterly ridiculous scene should really be put on a special compilation video of bad Science Fiction. So... not only do aliens from a distant galaxy have duct tape, they also carry it on their person just in case a human starts talking and annoys them, apparently.The other funniest thing is that when a car (or space ship) is shot with the laser weapon, it somehow turns into a flying cluster of metal storm gutters and other random bits.A lot of strange stuff going on in this movie, yet not quite hilarious enough to invest too much time in it... Watch Marvin the Martian shorts instead, I think he uses the same weapons.

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Rabh17

The sad thing is, the special effects are pretty good. For one-- I like especially like the beam weapons-- they make the air sizzle when they pass through-- which makes sense energetically speaking.And the Aliens being distinguished by White eyebrows. . . a nice low budget FX trick to make a distinction between US and THEM. I'll even forgive the aliens being stiffer than triple plywood.The Premise, though, isn't psychologically workable -- I mean, our gov'ts would willfully just collaborate to round up Hundred or thousands to MILLIONS of their own people to be drained of their blood and lives? Maybe this was an attempt on the writer's part to explore the whole Nazi-Collaboration angle, but it doesn't click.And last-- the putative hero here-- is absolutely NO hero. In fact, this man, in the face of the possible extinction of the Human race, has ONE mantra: Save my Daughter. Save my Daughter. I don't care how many other people die, but Save my Daughter. . .and while we're still at it Save my Daughter. . .And when we've Saved my Daughter, I'm outta here.Jeez, I mean, the viewer has to ask himself: "Um, why am I watching this, 'cause the hero is a selfish, self-centered douchebag." The Moral Message is clear: If this guy's daughter was not being culled, he wouldn't give a hoot. Usually, these monster/alien movies generally make Scientists out to be less than well-rounded-- but this guy would make Dr. Evil spit in disgust.So because of this totally cardboard, selfish, unlovable, and emotionally UNsympathetic nimrod is the FOCUS of this movie-- the viewer loses touch with the growing moral quandaries nagging the young alien overlord, or the sacrifices of the Resistance, or the unease of the Human Military being forced to collaborate in the mass culling of their own people.Wasted effort. Wasted Script. Wasted Carl Weathers. Wasted FX. Just wasted. . .aghhh! If you've nothing better to do before you turn in for the night, watch this-- and have your finger ready on the Fast Forward Button, especially when they start talking in one place.Trust me, you won't miss much.

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Claudio Carvalho

Earth is attacked by the Kulkus, a hostile alien breed infected by a lethal virus and needing human blood to develop an antidote. The worldwide governments negotiate with the humanoid ambassador the terms of peace, giving eight million humans shared between the nations to the aliens and in return they would spare our planet. When Heather Chase (Erin Ross), the daughter of the scientist Stephen Chase (Brad Johnson), is one of the selected, her father fights to save her, joining the resistance force. He proposes to Blair (Lilias Lane) and Alex (Cory Michael Davis), the leaders of the resistance, to give his researches with some alien material found in 1947, exchanging for the liberty of his daughter. But Heather is an unique species, having a genetic that heals the aliens and they do not accept to release her."Alien Siege" is a collection of clichés, recalling among other movies the cult "V". The predictable story has some reasonable special effects, good actors, adequate pace, and in the end this B-movie entertains without being special. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "O Perigo Alienígena" ("The Alien Danger")

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Bob O`Bob

I watched this partly because of the huge gap between the positive and negative reviews here on IMDb.It's hard for me to believe that there's anyone PAYING IMDb reviewers to pump up the reviews for anything at all, much less a relatively low budget made-for-sciffy-channel waste of time. But hey, since you're obviously out there somewhere, drop me a line, I could use the spare change... Okay, just kidding.But it's terrible. Of course you'll probably need to make your own decision, but when you do, count my vote on the "for goodness' sake DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME" side. I hope for your sake reading these reviews is ALL the time you waste on this movie.The ONLY positive I can think of is that SOME of the acting wasn't horrible. All the special effects are, most of the writing is (some of it's merely mediocre), and although I don't consider myself much of a judge of directing or cinematography, it certainly isn't good enough to redeem this turkey.

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