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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aav-223-829992

This is one awful movie. It has nothing going for it. I can't believe people were paid to make this kind of crap.Acting? Non-existent!Dialogue? Are you kidding me?!SFX? PsOne video games look better!Production value? On par with an amateur porn film!Those 8-10-star reviews? They must be from employees at the Sy-fy channel or somehow connected to the production of this film. I can't believe that anyone in their right mind would like this terrible waste of time.Stay far away. You're better off watching paint dry.

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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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rhobreigh

This is a pretty good movie. Much better than the standard Sci-Fi Channel fare. Good action, good VFX, great production value. I liked the actors, and I thought the director did a pretty good job.Most of these movies are crappy. "Alien Siege" tried something different, and for that, it gets a thumbs up. Most of these films "give the audience what it wants," which is an exercise in futility most of the time. That's like chasing your tail. The best part of this movie what that each group here (the aliens, etc.) was right from their own side. That's good, because it's true to life. Watching this movie, and others like it, you get the impression that they're made on the cheap. If that's the case, this is a cut above.

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lost-in-limbo

An alien race invades earth and holds it hostage in exchange for millions of human lives to save their species from a lethal virus. How it's decided is that people are chosen for this fate by some sort of lottery system organised by the world government, but a scientist, Steven Chase tries to save the life of his daughter, who has been accepted. He joins a resistance and they go out of their way to fight off the harvest."Alien Blood" is a cheap looking TV feature that's simply very lackadaisical and dead flat when it comes to the thrills. This story is one man's quest to save his daughter's life, and by the way maybe the rest of mankind along the way. Reading a lot of the reviews and I see it takes quite a bagging. Although I don't think it's extremely awful, but still it's bad. Plain and simple, the material was just far from stimulating, despite a decent concept. What we ended up with it is far from clever and unpredictable. The film's production looked glossy, but came across as quite shallow and mostly unexciting. When it gets going it just seems to rush on by, but it doesn't cover too much ground behind some workable facets that are brought up. It might think there's some sort of deep message within its material, but all I got was extreme corn and laughable dialogues. The insipid dribble they fumble out will choke you to death! Oh my, it was way too talkative with such wretched details and not to BRIGHT actions (just wait for the last 10 minutes!).The direction is by the numbers and performances are pretty stilted. Brad Johnson was terribly uninspired in the lead role as Steven Chase and the foxy Erin Ross plays his daughter Heather. Yep, even Carl Weathers didn't get up too much. Watch out for the stiff looking aliens that look like they are dressed up in white business shirts and black trousers. Special effects were fine I guess for such a production, but they can only do so much and it wasn't enough here.An undemanding Sci-fi yarn that pretty much had me yawning more often.

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