I recorded this SYFY movie on my DVR today in the hopes it would serve as a guilty pleasure. I finally had a break in my day and decided to watch the movie. The opening credits started with a shot of what I believe to be the Milky Way. As Jason London's name appears (who I have enjoyed in other movies), I see what looks like 4 transparent planets. Kind of corny, but I try to go with the flow of the movie.As the opening credits continue, our solar system comes into view. I am almost positive I did a better model of the solar system in Mr. Yonker's 4th grade than this movie did in the opening credits. In my mind, I am reciting the silly sentence I was taught to remember the planets, "My (Mercury) Very (Venus) Educated (Earth) Mother (Mars) Just (Jupiter) Served (Saturn) Us (Uranus) Nine (Neptune) Pizzas (Pluto)." It would take too long to explain the moons and planets that were misrepresented or completely missing from the rest of the opening credits. Let's just say, the only moon shown was Earth's and it appeared to be the same size as our planet and about 500 miles away.Twenty minutes into this movie I am trying to figure out why it was ever released. I decided to go onto IMDb and do some research. I have been more entertained by the people that have left reviews about the movie, than the actual movie itself.My favorite excerpt comes from reviewer, J Bartell: "Apparently, a group of bad Aliens, the "Cronen" are waiting for us to generate enough pollution to meet their needs when they will swoop in, kill us all and swipe our toxic waste. When the requisite female scientist asked the obvious question "Why kill us, we'd be glad to give them all they want for free" the only answer is "They don't negotiate". What are they, the Bush Administration? Not to mention the obvious fact that if they kill us all our ability to generate more pollution is zero, whereas if they just hauled it all away we'd make more than ever (just imagine if the EPA removed all restrictions, we would be a toxic goldmine). This is kind of like harvesting apples by cutting down the trees with a chainsaw and burning the stumps. And what kind of civilization doesn't know how to create pollution? The Bizarro world? "Me make car runs on smog and makes clean air. Me sad." Anyway, the plot revolves around a good alien sent here by someone to try to stop them by shutting down the "Omega Seed", which is the alien sensor that determines when the pollution level is adequate for harvesting. Turns out it's buried under a futuristic manhole cover in a barn. Makes you wonder what the farmer thought it was. 'Dang it Clem, I done told ya not to park the tractor on the Omega Seed'." This is the person who should have written the screenplay for this movie.

The movie takes your mind off the elements of the world as we know it today. It also reminds us that many of our problems are just like the movie.( put in context). If you have to think about what you have read so far there is no hope for you, but don't be blind and lead those of us that can see and THINK. Face it, you guys are just jealous of the hero that you wish you were, just like me. There are not many heroes today except our Firefighters, Police, and our Warriors overseas. So it is like I said, Mel is the hero we wish we were, and if we were, we would have more than half the problems as mentioned earlier solved with no excuses. Is that clear enough!

The movie is not even worth reviewing, except for the fact that it stars a one-time legitimate actor named Jason London. I know he is pretty much just a pretty boy, but there was a time when he appeared in legit movies. I wonder what happened to him? I can guess, but I dare not say for fear of being sued. Anyhow, the movie is a very bad -- and I mean very bad --- copy of I COME IN PEACE, which was about two enemy aliens duking it out on Earth. In that incredibly silly but fun movie, which starred another has-been, Dolph Lundgren, the aliens at least looked like something from another planet. In this movie, the aliens are an ordinary-looking black guy and someone dressed in what appears to be an ancient aviator outfit. I have seen worse, but not by much. I only watched it for London, who fails to deliver the goods. He reminds me a little of Kyle McLaughlin, another pretty boy who seems unable to act -- at least ever since SHOWGIRLS. Please avoid this one.

This film was okay, but not great. Apparently, it's original title was Alien vs. Alien, but it was released as "Showdown in Area 51".The plot is that two aliens land on Earth, one with the intention of allowing a weapon called the Omega Seed to wipe out all life on Earth so they can harvest our pollution. It really doesn't seem like much of a plan, as others have noted. (Love the Bizarro World comment!) The key to the weapon was lost on the spaceship that crashed in Roswell in 1947, but the real Area 51 is in Missouri guarded by the Forest Service. Yup, the Forest Service is the real Men in Black. Who knew? Okay, so you have slacker dude Jake who got kicked out, introduced by his brother who still works there, doing all the exposition before being vaporized by alien baddies. Slacker Jake teams up with the good alien and looks up his old girlfriend, Farscapes Gigi Edgely. I really wasn't a fan of her performance here. I think she was trying too hard to hide her Aussie accent, and for some reason her posture was bad for much of the film.So after some confusion as to which murdering alien they should trust, they manage to deactive the doomsday device. The aliens decide that they are going to retreat after that. Again, makes no sense whatsoever. If you have a whole invasion fleet, why would you only send down one guy to make sure your bomb goes off. Why not send down a whole team of these guys, and secure the thing? Why not just attack with your fleet and take out the inferior Earth forces? Still, it's better than average for a direct to DVD release.