I had picked this one up on DVD a while back and finally got around to watching it.
A reporter working for a tabloid magazine stumbles onto something real and alien when he investigates murders and other strange occurrences happening around a secret Air Force base. The base is home to an experimental aircraft (F-23, I think) that is controlled by an advanced computer program called ASMODS (I might have goofed that acronym up).
Unfortunately, the ASMODS program was software recovered from a crashed UFO. It has been cannibalizing military equipment to rebuild itself and taking over the base personnel. How this all came about it a little foggy, as taking over people seems to involve the person being injected with a serum and then having a brainwashing helmet put on their head. Was the first victim a medic who fell asleep near an Erector set outfitted with a modem?
Being exposed to the DOD system has made the alien AI a little loopy. It goes crazy patriotic near the end, forcing the main characters to go after the flying saucer, which shaped like one of those folded over fruit pies, in its underground lair. If they cannot stop it, the alien machine intends to attack Russia and China with preemptive nuclear strikes.
Something that I had forgotten was how absurd some of the scenes are when the alien-controlled soldiers shoot at the protagonists. Apparently, a .223 M16 round will not penetrate a normal car. Heck, all they do is ding the windshield.
I also want to know how many murders, all out shooting battles, and jet aircraft dogfights need to happen before the DOD would send a strike force to lock down a base.
Greywizard has a review over at the Unknown Movies. I cannot read it, because I intend to review this film in the next few months, but here is a link:
http://www.badmovieplanet.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev231.html
