Bezenby
Yet another film with an escaped alien chasing people around an underground complex. This one however throws in a couple of changes to the usual formula by having a few different aliens, your two usual killing machines plus one shape changing individual who can take the form of anyone it touches. Just so the film can copy scenes from the Thing as well as Aliens.This is all based in Area 51, where some nosy journalists are invited to look around the non-alien part of the complex. You got your straight laced journalist and the web-based smart arse journalist, looking for the 'truth'. I wouldn't quite dwell on any characters here though, as halfway through their tour the aliens escape and that's when the fun begins.The story might be generic, but at least there's plenty of gore to keep you awake. Folks are torn to bits, shot, have their faces torn off and even have their heads stamped on, so the film has that going for it. It's always quite fast paced, so it'll do as a not bad time waster. Not a lot of CGI which was a good thing. If you skip it, you won't have missed much.
Rocketeer_Raccoon
I feel like a fool now watching the full entirety of this film, this film is just stupid as hell. The acting was dreadful and the story just made no sense at all. A few News people are publicly allowed into the secretive Area 51 for the first time and then all a sudden without proper control from the military some aliens break out loose on a killing spree. One of the aliens has the ability to mimic people and how that one escaped is probably the stupidest thing to happen in the movie as it fools people in thinking they are the real person and the soldiers keep shooting at the wrong thing, accidentally killing the real person. The other aliens they just didn't show or explained how they got out, and they usually kill people using a tail which is obviously ripping off from Alien. Oh and there's a friendly telekinetic alien that talks like a computer...What?!!! This film is garbage, it's like the movie was made by aliens from the planet Stupid. Avoid this movie at all costs!
bowmanblue
I first found out about Area 51 in the mid nineties as the height of the X-Files' fame. Area 51 is the codename given to a section of land in the Nevada desert in America. Allegedly, it contains the remains of crashed UFOs etc. I always thought it would make a good movie. I still think it would - the emphasis being that it would make a GOOD movie. Sadly, this is no good.Er, where do I begin? The cheap special effects? The shoddy acting? The wafer-thin characters? The ludicrous plot holes? It's all there - unfortunately.Basically, what you have here, is a made-for-TV movie, i.e. wobbly sets, unknown actors and not much more.Bottom line - it's just short of okay. Some people may like it, but not many. There are so many better alien films out there - like 'Alien' for example.Plus side - the leading lady is cute (that's probably more a plus point for the guys - I can see too many women swooning over sci-fi stalwart Bruce Boxleighter).Oh, well, never mind. I may have wasted an hour and a half of my life, but it was still more entertaining than a Transformers movie.(and, who gave this film 5/5 on Amazon? they serious must be taking the pi...)
Drago_Head_Tilt
Journalists are permitted to look around the military base in the notorious Area 51, just to prove that there are no aliens there. But in the lower levels there are indeed extraterrestrial lifeforms that escape and kill. One is a faceless humanoid who can replicate anyone (leading to boring who-is-the-alien situations stolen from THE THING), the other a tentacled man-in-a-suit monster (not a bad retro creation, a cross between ALIEN and EVIL SPAWN/WASP WOMAN). Another nice, wise alien is called J. Rod. A very boring Syfy release from the Director of THE DEVIL'S TOMB. With Bruce Boxleitner as a Colonel, Jason "what happened to may career?" London and Rachel Miner as heroic grunts, John Shea as a famous news anchor and Andrew Sensenig. Mukerjee was also Co-Producer.Movie reviews @ spinegrinderweb.com
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