This is a low budget Scifi movie. I don't know why everyone is being so hard on it. I am a Scifi buff and I found it to be entertaining. I think that is because I didn't expect a low budget "B" movie to be a multimillion dollar production. Yes, the start is slow and there are wholes in the script. I found the special effects to be cheesy / cheap and the music didn't match the movie. However, I didn't think the acting was all that bad. Academy award winning it is not. Yes, someone was trying way to hard to make it look like they had more money than they did. And missed the class that less can be more. But,as long as you watch it with the right mind set you won't be disappointed.All in all for a low budget Scifi flick not that bad.
... View MoreI'll be honest... I only watched this movie past 10 minutes because the blonde chick is gorgeous. So in a movie titled Alien Uprising, released in 2014, in the age of highly advanced CGI and visual effects, your expectations would likely include: A short 10-15 minute beginning to develop a character or two; followed by a scene that would immediately instill fear, panic, or suspense; great realistic visual effects or the aliens or their spacecraft; the presence of military; a majority of scenes with a lot of action and aliens that scare the s*** out of you; a group of people staying together that run away, organize, plan to fight, and or fight, things exploding; effects of highly advanced weapons maybe; etc. Well, if you expected that, you are sadly mistaken, as was I! This excuse of a movie lollygags around for almost half an hour with a bunch of idiots getting drunk, having sex, and arguing with their girlfriends... oh and even a marriage proposal. There is just one completely ignorant scene after another. Pure stupidity. One of the characters is portrayed to be a "soldier that served two tours in Afghanistan, and is tough as nails who will destroy people", instead he gets beat up and nearly killed by some random cop, while his f*** buddy girlfriend stands in a corner and watches him nearly get killed before doing something to help him, which follows a scene of them having a car accident, and her SERIOUSLY overdramatizing and freaking out because a person is still alive in a mangled car wreck, AS ALIEN SPACECRAFT ARE FLYING AROUND IN THE AIR. Seriously... what kind of person would ever be that stupid?? Trying to save someone who is bleeding to death WHILE an alien invasion is taking place? Give me a break!! I didn't watch an alien invasion movie to see a weak little "soldier" and a cop have a meaningless fight in a drug store, with Matrix-like slow motion fighting scenes! To top it off, the visual effects are beyond horrible, and comparable to visual effects from the early 1990's. This is by far, possibly the Holy Grail of terrible invasion movies. To date, I don't recall ever watching anything worse that this abomination. Please do not support this movie! Every dollar these characters and producers make is putting them one dollar closer to producing another movie!
... View MoreU.F.O is a real mess of a movie... a mixture of genres that go together about as well as oil and water. On the bright side though, it's a MUCH better film than the opening moments would suggest. During them, we see a bunch of idiots drinking at one of those awful rave parties, where they move like zombies and exchange the most pathetic chat-up lines ever. Then, we have two simultaneous sexual encounters... interspersed with footage of someone vomiting into a toilet. Nice. Fortunately, the next morning, the power goes out, mysterious ships start appearing in the sky... and things get a LITTLE more interesting...Everything here feels perfunctory... there are a few moments where we see people panic-buying, and turning on each other... but nowhere near enough, considering the situation. Instead, we get a few mildly diverting space battles, some oddly placed martial-art fights (Well, Jean-Claude Van Damme DOES appear for all of 10 minutes, they had to give him SOMETHING to do), lots of bickering and plenty of unnecessary supporting characters. Injured little girl, and the 'comedy' duo of soldiers, I'm looking at YOU.It really is hard to make sense of anything that's going on. WHY are the aliens identifiable by a tattoo? WHAT is that damn preacher banging on about? WHEN the evil extraterrestrial girl has a chance to kill all the goodies, why doesn't she take it? Other not-so important stuff apparently includes where the UFOs came from, what their goal might be, what they look like when they're not disguised as people... etc. And as for the clusterf*** (Yep, I went there) of a conclusion... Answers on a postcard pls to tell me what the heck was happening. Be careful, though you may lose your mind trying to figure it out. Still, at least it's better than the Roy Chubby Brown flick of the same name. Now THAT'S a quote to put on the posters... 4/10
... View MoreThis movie is simply awful and not in a fun way. Sometimes films that are terrible are also enjoyable to watch, "dumb fun," making you laugh out loud at the ineptness. However, this film is not only stupid but boring. The pacing is terrible. It is presumably about an attack by aliens but they manage to avoid any involvement of aliens until well into the movie. The attempt at building tension is all about people fighting each other at the most ridiculous times. As you are viewing the movie, questions will occur to you like "If the mobs were amassing outside a store to loot it how come they didn't go around the back to the, incredibly, unlocked door and just walk in the way the main characters did?" But even as I dismissed questions about the ridiculously dopey plot points, I figured "Well maybe it will turn out like that famous Twilight Zone episode in which the aliens sat back while humanity destroyed itself out of its own paranoia." But noooo, nothing that clever as the aliens who had incredible technology and fire power SPOILER ALERT showed up as being identical to humans - in fact having infiltrated the world and passed as humans for years - and just shot them with guns.I should also point out that at the beginning there is soft-core porn, which in itself didn't bode well for the movie as a science fiction effort. However, I tried to shrug that off in thinking "Well, it's a foreign film so maybe this is standard" - I recalled TV shows I'd seen in some European which had nothing to do, specifically, with sexual themes yet had to toss in some sex scenes for the heck of it, as was expected. But in looking back I'd have to write off the early sex scenes as part of the "cheesiness" factor.The movie is extremely derivative, having stolen spaceship design from a number of films, along with the "aliens among us" theme (what a savings on special effects!), among many other elements. But I can't really call it derivative without insulting a large number of films that it borrowed from - it brings film-making to new lows. Avoid it, or you may risk wishing that you could have an hour and a half of your life back.
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