I don't know where these vicious reviewers came from but I've seen some horrendous schlock films get better reviews and better ratings. Even the worst of the worst were not defiled like this group of post XGen reviewers looking for anything they can trash. Especially if it was from their parents generation.This movie doesn't deserve the treatment it has received from this group. In fact, it looks like an organized trashing effort from someone who has a personal bone to pick who gathered his friends to help attack this movie. Anarchistic shallow mentality by their own declarations of intent.The story is good. The film & sound quality are clear. The camera-work is professional. The editing has good continuity. The screenplay & dialogue are well done. The dialogue has depth. The Actors all deliver their lines well. There is Entertaining riveting Action from beginning to end. The special effects & alien technologies are well done. Even the ending song & performance were worthy of a top 10 hit record.I don't see the problem these neophytes are complaining about. The only weak points would be the need for better lighting on the night scenes and less screaming by the females. While the characters prevailed at the ending it was clearly left open for a series or sequel.This movie is just as good as the acclaimed "Species" and certainly as good or better than the sci-fi schlock produced over the past 15 years.These reviewers are just being nasty for means sake because they thrive on destruction. What kind of true Sci-fi fan would trash Independence Day? Consider what kind of people are posting these unfair, rotten reviews. These attacks are unfounded & undeserved. They must find pleasure out of trashing an undeserving film. A power play to satiate a need to bully. Certainly not genuine sci-fi fans.Check out the reviews on The phantom planet or the war of the planets for review comparisons. Those were far worse productions with far less criticism.This was an enjoyable film. Maybe not a great film but quite well done & holds your attention throughout. It has a lot more depth to the alien attacks than most major films with high ratings.

The /film itself/ is a spoiler (ie, something that spoils things, such as the viewers' mental balance), but as I describe how the heroes are able to avoid being killed by the aliens, I've marked this review with a spoiler alert.The portmanteau title -- "Alien" + "Species" -- is supposed to confuse potential viewers as to the provenance of this gobbler. Of course, "Species" is pretty bad, so if you're trying to ride the coattails of another film, you should at least pick a good one."Alien Species" suggests what Ed Wood Jr might have churned out on a decent budget. The script is nothing but quadruply recycled clichés and shopworn "humor" thrown together as rapidly as the writer could type them, without the charm (???) of Ed Wood's amusing non-sequiturs.I especially liked the way Our Heroes find a remote control that shuts off the force field surrounding the alien ships -- at which point they can be destroyed by what is (relative to the ships) small-arms fire. (Bright aliens, these.) It resembles a tarted-up BIO-BUG remote control. There's no explanation of why the dozens of alien ships don't just gang up on the humans and (as Dr Crab would say) "reduce them to icky grey slime".The 1996 special effects are, surprisingly, not at all bad, even by current standards. The result is that they make the rest of the film look even worse than its already low, low level of quality.If you want to avoid brain damage or digestive convulsions (that's the polite way of putting it), avoid this film.

I downloaded this movie from the New York Public Library, more to see how the NYPL system worked than to watch a movie. SciFi is one of my favorite genres and this TITLE popped up on top. A is for Alien, after all.As it began playing, I just had to log onto IMDb to see if maybe this movie was, perhaps, a sci-fi COMEDY. Alas, no. The movie is too lame to be comedy, too crappy (in all the wrong ways) to develop a cult following. From the get-go, the plot is overly convenient. Gadget geeks will love the c.1990s video monitors in the opening scene. . . "Hey, you are supposed to be watching those monitors?" "Come quick, look what just appeared on the monitors!" 1996? Looks like a time warp back into the 1980s. Check out the posters on the wall. And how about those first contact graphical special effects? What IS that software playing "Galileo 2 Raw Data Feed.wav?" On a "KFC monitor?! The lead actor didn't really pull off geeky, and his female counterpart just looked like her wardrobe came from the set of "Sexy Secretaries Gone Wild."But, I did watch it until the end, searching for signs of intelligent life (and more bad sets and lousy effects). It is one of those movies you can have fun making fun of, a la MST3K

Bad acting, bad special effects, plot holes that you can drive a mack truck right through. All that, and Charles Napier too.I give this a 9 out of 10 on the B-movie scale; I was thoroughly entertained. You have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy this. I can't believe this gets a 2.4 on IMDb while there are clearly worse movies out there that score considerably higher.It actually reminded me of "Planet Terror" from the Grindhouse double feature by Robert Rodriguez that was released earlier this year.You can get this movie on a 12-disc set (total of 50 movies) that is titled "Nightmare Worlds" from Amazon . com.