Well, I started watching this movie raw, that is without prior knowldege of the movie. I quickly realized it was more slapstick than just a comedy and thank god..because it could only work that way. THe story is common, but the writer and driector Jake West gives us some memorible scens. The alien sex scenes are good for comedy.
As I was watching the film, it kept reminding me of Peter Jacksion first movie, Bad Taste (1987), it was not scared to up the gore factor, although Evil Aliens was more professionally made.
I do have one complaint about the aliens…why were they so weak and stupid. The beginning of the movie had them as evil alien badasses, but as the movie progressed they were just minless zombies, easy to kill. Would an adnavece space-faring species relaly not movie out of the way of a truck?
Anyway, the movie works. I enjoyed it, but again, I love what most people would turn off in disguist ior boredome. It is a funny movie that does have it’s superior moments….and the dialogue pays homage to so many other sources such as Star Wars and Star Tek.
First, I will just begin with what this movie takes from. There are elements of the 13th Warrior, Alien 4 and a little predator.
I decided to skip this when it first came out at the theater. I didn’t know much about this movie due to the lack of a proper marketing campaign and that basic fact many studios don;t market Sci-Fi movies well. I’ve seen VinDiesel’s previous Sci-Fi movies and, to me, he has officially stabilized himself into a sumbol of the Sci-Fi genre as Arnold Swarzannegar did longbefore him.