Terminal Invasion

[Chadzilla]

Anybody see it?  Two slimes in my book.

Bruce Campbell was either sorely miscast or poorly directed, his performance lacked the necessary zing to make his character come to life.  I never really believe that he was out for himself or would have killed anybody intentionally - NOT the kind of personality his escaped convict character needed to project.  He just kind of stood there and looked rather bored most of the time.  He needed a sense of humor and a boomstick.

I liked the aliens okay (in an odd coincedence they resembled those from the other alien invasion flick Signs more than a bit), but I saw the twists coming miles away.  I wasn't bored, and there were a few good momemts, but for every good moment there were at least three that I saw the outcome from a mile away AND I knew who was an alien and who wasn't almost from the get go.

And the airducts were way too large, again.

[Josh Patrick]

Well if you still think im crazy, i should keep my opinion out of this, but i cant, i agree with you.

[Future Blob]

 Did anyone else see the preview and think "Cheap The Thing ripoff?" It was refreshing that they made Campbell a murderer instead of something more cuddly, like a bank robber. It was also good how they never explained it with something crappy like "I killed the guy who murdered my wife" or something. Aside from that, it felt like a series premire. Some of the ideas behind the aliens were good, and Chase Masterson was hot, btu there was a definite lack of common sense in much of it.

[Andrew]

Future Blob wrote:

>  Did anyone else see the preview and think "Cheap The Thing
> ripoff?"

You have not seen a cheap ripoff of "The Thing" until you have seen "Unknown Origin."  Some of the scenes are done just like those of the better movie.  Just think "The Thing" on the ocean floor.  I am going to start working on a review of that soon.

[Lee]

What I saw of it I liked. I didn't catch all of it because for some reason whenever I think I have some free time and can watch a movie or surf the net my parents come up with some task for me to do.

[John]

I liked Terminal Invasion, but it had some major plot holes. Spoilers follow;

 Why did Bruce comment that when the authorities saw what was in the bathroom they wouldn't care about him anymore? What was in the bathroom were the bodies of two dead cops, the alien dissolved. Campbell killed the first alien by hitting him the head and the second one by shooting her in the head, so why did they spend the rest of the movie hiding? When the two kids started to change why didn't he just shoot them in the head? Why was the leader stronger than the soldiers, shouldn't it be the other way around? And why are they so happy at the end when all they did was stop a training exercise? Presumably the rest of the aliens weren't waiting for a bunch of trainees to succeed before going ahead with their plans.

[J.R.]

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I agree 100%. I hate it whenever a character is an escaped con or prison inmate or something and their murder is justifiabel by some sap story or they didn't do it. A good writer can make a cold killer a likeable character. I also hate a somewhat newer trend to sidestep any actual character development by saying the hero has a daughter. I won't automatically feel for a person just because they have a kid, you have to earn that sort of thing.

[Fearless Freep]

You have not seen a cheap ripoff of "The Thing" until you have seen "Unknown Origin." Some of the scenes are done just like those of the better movie. Just think "The Thing" on the ocean floor. I am going to start working on a review of that soon.

Yup!  Caught that one a few weeks back.  Pretty bad.




The zinger at the end makes the last 30 minutes or so of the film senseless.

If *all* the survivors were infected, why the battle to keep the one guy who was known to be infected from getting on the lifeboat?  And why was he trying to kill the others if they were infected, too?

[Chadzilla]

John wrote:
>
> And why are they so
> happy at the end when all they did was stop a training
> exercise? Presumably the rest of the aliens weren't waiting
> for a bunch of trainees to succeed before going ahead with
> their plans.

Oh my God, this was an unwitting prequel to SIGNS!!!!

[Chadzilla]

J.R. wrote:
>
> A good
> writer can make a cold killer a likeable character.

Quentin Tarantino anyone?  Anyone?