so far it's Alien Lite, not really bad but suffereing under the hand of a director who's reach substantially exceeds his grasp.
It's the sort of movie where the freshman actors treat the hokey script like Shakespeare and the Ripley stand-in says "what, do you think I'm trying to prove something?" to which the Dallas stand-in replies "I don't know....are you?".
Good news- the male romantic lead who I liked and thought looked vaguely familiar turns out to be Cole Hauser, son of one of my all-time favorite b-movie actors Wings Hauser.
Wings registered one of the all-time p4p b-movie tour de force roles as the maniacal pimp Ramrod in Vice Squad. I'm glad to see his boy getting some work.
final verdict:
A solid B- overall.
It had strengths and weaknesses. Sorta frustrating because the weaknesses could have been done away with by more diligent rewrites on the screenplay. But didn't piss me off and drive me crazy like so many mainstream releases. The critters were pretty cool, it didn't go overboard with explaining every little thing that happened and Vin did a solid job as the ex-con antihero.
Worth a rental.
On to my next victim!
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