There is a lot wrong with this movie. It appears as a very low budget movie, so you cannot sit back and let the details get you a second time, once is enough. Unfortunately the plot makes it a bit difficult to get sympathy for the right people and the editing makes it hard to watch and keep feeling like there is a story to be told and unfold in front of you.
If there was any acting going on at the shoots it is chopped up by the pace of the editing, if they needed the film to be any shorter why not cut down on the cast before having them killed off one by one. This would give us time to bond more with some of those who last a little longer.
The action appears too fast, and forced. I had hopes the second half will wrap it up and leave me an impression that the director wanted to make a movie but was simply working with his hands tied. As it is all the dialog doesn't help to build a belief in the characters nor does it seem to come natural. The team leader is pretty but does not come off as authority. When the movie was over it just felt cheesy and a waste of the acting skills involved. What is the point of looking for skilled actors like John Savage and James Marshall both of whom can do much better than this.
As it is working with low budget the set designer and set decorator have managed to build a setup that is well made but which the director insisting on having the actors run fast through all the time, the viewer is not left with the impression of how big the compound is, both because where others film have managed to far more from a small set to work with there really isn't much to this story other than running from room to room with some desperate attempt at dialog none of which becomes very involving at any stage.
The girl who plays the lead does as best she can, though the bags under her eyes is a distraction of what is otherwise a very beautiful face that would be better used with some early coupling of emotion in the movie, in particular with the code breaker character, who I felt was a misplaced character. It would be better to have him having been a new science officer arriving after an incident involving the death of someone close to the alien, a person whose eyes we see the first part through, one who felt bad about the situation and offers to help the team out rather than criminalizing him. He could just be the right guy at the wrong place. As it turns out he has his own part in the plot which is disturbing the way it is played out.
The end is really Hollywood with some gory effect scenes that are just way to poorly made, and a death scene that is shown too long for anyone not to notice the inadequate effects budget.
Perhaps another choice of director, adjustments to the plot and a real going over the effects budget and less footage of the grown alien would have saved this movie.
Ironically the alien creature offered in this movie looks too much like a Predator that walks on all four legs. But there is no pedigree involved other than looks, the predator creature that has served two independent films and showdown movies with the H.R.Giger Alien creature, all of which are above this level.
The film will kill 90 minutes, and it is hardly possible to escape the cringing feeling by fast forwarding at any point unless you do not mind the rapidly decreasing number of team members or what became of them. Though most die due to the alien..... It is a shoot'em'up'n'die'fast movie but it is rough on the eyes and brain.
If there was any acting going on at the shoots it is chopped up by the pace of the editing, if they needed the film to be any shorter why not cut down on the cast before having them killed off one by one. This would give us time to bond more with some of those who last a little longer.
The action appears too fast, and forced. I had hopes the second half will wrap it up and leave me an impression that the director wanted to make a movie but was simply working with his hands tied. As it is all the dialog doesn't help to build a belief in the characters nor does it seem to come natural. The team leader is pretty but does not come off as authority. When the movie was over it just felt cheesy and a waste of the acting skills involved. What is the point of looking for skilled actors like John Savage and James Marshall both of whom can do much better than this.
As it is working with low budget the set designer and set decorator have managed to build a setup that is well made but which the director insisting on having the actors run fast through all the time, the viewer is not left with the impression of how big the compound is, both because where others film have managed to far more from a small set to work with there really isn't much to this story other than running from room to room with some desperate attempt at dialog none of which becomes very involving at any stage.
The girl who plays the lead does as best she can, though the bags under her eyes is a distraction of what is otherwise a very beautiful face that would be better used with some early coupling of emotion in the movie, in particular with the code breaker character, who I felt was a misplaced character. It would be better to have him having been a new science officer arriving after an incident involving the death of someone close to the alien, a person whose eyes we see the first part through, one who felt bad about the situation and offers to help the team out rather than criminalizing him. He could just be the right guy at the wrong place. As it turns out he has his own part in the plot which is disturbing the way it is played out.
The end is really Hollywood with some gory effect scenes that are just way to poorly made, and a death scene that is shown too long for anyone not to notice the inadequate effects budget.
Perhaps another choice of director, adjustments to the plot and a real going over the effects budget and less footage of the grown alien would have saved this movie.
Ironically the alien creature offered in this movie looks too much like a Predator that walks on all four legs. But there is no pedigree involved other than looks, the predator creature that has served two independent films and showdown movies with the H.R.Giger Alien creature, all of which are above this level.
The film will kill 90 minutes, and it is hardly possible to escape the cringing feeling by fast forwarding at any point unless you do not mind the rapidly decreasing number of team members or what became of them. Though most die due to the alien..... It is a shoot'em'up'n'die'fast movie but it is rough on the eyes and brain.