TheLittleSongbird I watched Alien Apocalypse with low expectations, and while not a good movie at all it was better than I thought it would be. It does have a lot of problems, such as the cheap special effects, ridiculously fake beards, an overbearing soundtrack, dialogue that is corny at best and cringe-worthy at worst, clichéd characters, overly cartoony violence(though the shooting at the beginning was actually quite good), a silly story that felt rushed and was lacking in suspense or surprises and mostly awful acting. However, there is some well-conceived gore, some good shots which make the killing of the aliens much more satisfying, some nice scenery and the amiable acting of Renee O'Connor and Bruce Campbell, who always tries hard no matter how bad the script or overall movie is. All in all, not a must-avoid movie, but hardly a must-watch either. 4/10 Bethany Cox

fearfulofspiders Some films are truly worthy of 1-stars and not a two or three. While Alien Apocalypse is another one of the many Sci-Fi Channel "films" that are only good for background noise, it's also one enormous rip-off of Planet of the Apes with some serious problems -- mainly the acting.The writing isn't too bad with this movie. In fact, if one were to not have seen this film and read the script, the movie could actually be worth another star or two. Bruce Campbell is the only saving grace to this trash. Everyone else is questionable in if they're actually giving it their all, or just THAT bad. There's also some plot holes. Libby (the jungle girl) claims to know Campbell's character (Ivan) from somewhere, yet this issue is never resolved, only being mentioned once more near the end of the film, and again with no verification of what she means by this.The special effects, while typical Sci-Fi budget garbage, are not as bad as the other stuff churned from these companies. The termites are still bad, but decent enough for how much they probably cost. The rockets and tanks and explosions are another story -- how a small tank can hold so many bugs is beyond me; the thing's like a clown car.Overall, this is very bad film-making, simple as that. Budget is always one of the primary factors in films, and that can be part of the blame, but the acting strength of this cast and the script errors can be placed solely on the writer/director. Once again, this film is nothing worth more than background noise.

Bo Schreurs Normally when a sci-fi gets a bad rating, I normally think, it can't be that bad. Well, in this case, I was wrong. Although the idea is good, it is worked out quite stupid. You know hen you start watching these kind of movies made for TV, that the humans will win in the end, and the aliens will loose. I can accept that, but not the way they did it. First the good part, the aliens themselves are nicely done, that was the good part. Now the points I noticed and made me hate this movie.1.The aliens used Neutron bombs to wipe out all live on earth, because they are only interested in wood. Well obviously not all, because there are still some humans living. They have no radiation burns or whatsoever. None of them are deformed when they were born. All look quite healthy to say the least.2. 4 Astonauts come back from a NASA mission in space, in the middle of Oregon, the way their spacecraft landed would surely have killed them.3. But no all live and none of them and all are surprised that almost all forest is gone. I guess, they couldn't see that from outer space. They didn't make any contact with earth, and should have been alerted by this all, but no, they are strolling down this desert without any care, and hence are being captured, while one of the astronauts is killed.4. When they are thrown in a hole in the ground, they try to communicate with the humans, which make sense. One of them tells the astronauts that he even learned a youngster to read an write. Why? There are no books and for survival that skill is utterly useless at that moment.5. The 2 astronauts try to dig a tunnel to escape from the camp, they do it for days, and never use it, because they escape by killing an alien. But where are the guards with their rifles? Are they asleep? I guess the script writers dumped the whole idea of the tunnel.6. Humans who escape from a camp have one of their fingers chopped of as a punishment. However, when the 2 astronauts escape, and the woman gets returned to the camp, they forget to chop of a finger. That doesn't make sense, does it.7. The male astronaut left, tries to assemble a group of humans to attack the camp where he came from, to free his female astronaut who he loves. They must have deleted some scenes there, because at one point they were with a party of 5 and the next scene they are already with a party of 8 or so. I was thinking, did I miss something or what?8. When they reach the President, there are several Senators alive as well. Because they are in a bunker they are all alive. But where are the communication devices? Where are the computers? Why are there no soldiers defending them. And where is the food and water? One man with a rifle takes care of the food it seems. One man! In a world which is infested with radiation and where all (animal) live was killed.9. Finally a large group of humans attack the camp with handmade bows. And even mobile attack systems carrying arrows. Without testing and training everything works fine and all humans are top marksmen. The aliens are able to take over a planet, but lack the skills of defeating a group of human rebels who only carry a few rifles and lots of bows. Even worse, instead of hiding for an attack, they let themselves be butchered very easily, without firing a single shot themselves.10 Humans or so with bows, kill 20 aliens with futuristic weapons. In the end the 2 astronauts have a kind of gore fest where they chop up the aliens with sables. And 2 human rebels finish of an alien tank with molotovcocktails... Huh? Where did they get the bottles and where did they get the fuel, and the fire. And they throw it directly in the hole from where the rockets are coming. And it blows up the tank. How dumb do they think the audience is?Conclusion, there were several moments I realized that this movie is a waste of time, but I kept watching. It couldn't get any worse could it. Well it did. The only reason I gave this one a 2, is because maybe the aliens will finish of the lead characters finally. Go get them!

Benjamin Damien Well, I'have to confess : My DVD collection is pretty complete with "classics" and I'm bound to look for very bad Sci-fi or horror B-movies for some late-night entertainment.Alien apocalypse is certainly fitting in this "niche", and without the presence of Bruce Campbell, I would certainly have overlooked it.The movie can be summarized like this : Simple and over-predictable plot, taking inspiration from recent movies like Independence day, battlefield earth (Yikes!), star-gate,...Le FX are, er, limited to bad CGI aliens (with bad animation, looking like they were coming from a 1990-era CD-Rom game). There are occasional explosions, which is obviously the same filmed from different angles.The acting is very bad. More like a college end-of-year revue. And it's especially visible when some actors interact with the handful of "profesionnals" actors (like Campbell). One fine example is the young "warrior" woman whom you can hardly hear during dialogs.Costumes are cheap and really stupids (White Space suit/uniform complete with Shoes with gaiter closed by long shoelaces anyone ?) and most of the cast are wearing fake beards and wigs obviously bought from a prank store (sometimes the hairs are not from the same color than the beard).Decors and locations are limited to woods or desert (looking more like an abandoned quarry. You can spot wheels threads here and there).And the more fun are the plot holes : Every one has forgotten everything about civilization in twenty years (but most of the cast is aged 30-40years old). Superior aliens that have subdued the whole planet in a snap are living in a wooden shed and have no trace of spaceship or computers or advanced means of communication. Moreover they seems to be killed very easily although everyone seems convinced that they are immortals. The "resistance" is killing a lot of aliens and guards during the uprising, but they stick with the bows, ignoring the rifles and "laser rods" left by the dead aliens.And finally, they spent most of the movie looking for the "president" which is allegedly alive and forming an army (a kind of legend, giving hope to the captive). It appears that the president is living in a garden shed, less than one day of walk from the saw mill, and still has the whole congress with him (still wearing suits 20years after the attack although the "captives" are wearing animal furs). Very, very funny... It was worth the 2euros I paid for it (found in a bargain bin in a department store)