Showdown at Area 51

in french

source: Alien vs. Alien

The movie takes your mind off the elements of the world as we know it today. It also reminds us that many of our problems are just like the movie.( put in context). If you have to think about what you have read so far there is no hope for you, but don't be blind and lead those of us that can see and THINK. Face it, you guys are just jealous of the hero that you wish you were, just like me. There are not many heroes today except our Firefighters, Police, and our Warriors overseas. So it is like I said, Mel is the hero we wish we were, and if we were, we would have more than half the problems as mentioned earlier solved with no excuses. Is that clear enough!

The energy crisis has been solved. Turns out an alien race can use our carbon emissions for their own planet. Easy answer to all our current issue with the planet. Jude and some dude in ancient alien underwater "flight"suit, battle it out on our planet. They are both visitors from outer space. This costume reminded me of the old 50's A whopping 3 million was spent on this flick. I think making these films does provide employment and training ground for film/video folks and good experience before they graduate to making a commercial movie. These SyFy movies are the fast food of the industry. You start flipping burgers and move up to management. Direct a few SyFy movies and move up to theatrical release. The costume for the "gas mask" alien was surely inspired by Road Warrior. But the cutout butt cheeks were missing on this thrown together, jury rigged design. Visit a salvage store, buy tons of surplus, thrown them on an alien. His outfit reminded me of the 50's flick with the gorilla with the diving helmet. Jason and GiGi work with Jude, the other alien, to save the planet. Jason seems unable to master the RPG. Perhaps they should have given it to a Russian. Jason took about 5 minutes to aim but never fire the RPG. He should take a training class. At one time he has the aim but is distracted. I like the scene where he "debates" the bad alien, who tries to convince him that he is really the good guy. He turns off his squealing vocals to English. "I am saving the planet the other guy is a terrorist." In movies like this you really need a few hot chicks with 36DD cleavage to keep a guys interest. Really. And tight shorts and t-tops. GiGi just doesn't make the grade, but she is cute. And you need a "get wet" scene somewhere, like in P2. The only sexy scene is where Jude tells GiGi to "slide the ether rod into the terminal port" to save the planet from invasion. She is carrying around a * type device for a lot of the movie and this dialog is loaded with innuendo. If it comes on the SyFy channel, you might check it out. The squealing alien sounded like a lifted audio track from a Godzilla movie.

I recorded this SYFY movie on my DVR today in the hopes it would serve as a guilty pleasure. I finally had a break in my day and decided to watch the movie. The opening credits started with a shot of what I believe to be the Milky Way. As Jason London's name appears (who I have enjoyed in other movies), I see what looks like 4 transparent planets. Kind of corny, but I try to go with the flow of the movie. As the opening credits continue, our solar system comes into view. I am almost positive I did a better model of the solar system in Mr. Yonker's 4th grade than this movie did in the opening credits. In my mind, I am reciting the silly sentence I was taught to remember the planets, "My (Mercury) Very (Venus) Educated (Earth) Mother (Mars) Just (Jupiter) Served (Saturn) Us (Uranus) Nine (Neptune) Pizzas (Pluto)." It would take too long to explain the moons and planets that were misrepresented or completely missing from the rest of the opening credits. Let's just say, the only moon shown was Earth's and it appeared to be the same size as our planet and about 500 miles away. Twenty minutes into this movie I am trying to figure out why it was ever released. I decided to go onto IMDb and do some research. I have been more entertained by the people that have left reviews about the movie, than the actual movie itself. My favorite excerpt comes from reviewer, J Bartell: "Apparently, a group of bad Aliens, the "Cronen" are waiting for us to generate enough pollution to meet their needs when they will swoop in, kill us all and swipe our toxic waste. When the requisite female scientist asked the obvious question "Why kill us, we'd be glad to give them all they want for free" the only answer is "They don't negotiate". What are they, the Bush Administration? Not to mention the obvious fact that if they kill us all our ability to generate more pollution is zero, whereas if they just hauled it all away we'd make more than ever (just imagine if the EPA removed all restrictions, we would be a toxic goldmine). This is kind of like harvesting apples by cutting down the trees with a chainsaw and burning the stumps. And what kind of civilization doesn't know how to create pollution? The Bizarro world? "Me make car runs on smog and makes clean air. Me sad." Anyway, the plot revolves around a good alien sent here by someone to try to stop them by shutting down the "Omega Seed", which is the alien sensor that determines when the pollution level is adequate for harvesting. Turns out it's buried under a futuristic manhole cover in a barn. Makes you wonder what the farmer thought it was. 'Dang it Clem, I done told ya not to park the tractor on the Omega Seed'." This is the person who should have written the screenplay for this movie.

When an alien crash-lands in Area 51, a former soldier and his girlfriend try to help the being recover a device stolen from a rival alien species that will annihilate Earth before it can launch the initial codes for it to happen. There wasn't a whole lot here that really wowed me over, as it ends up feeling more like a sci-fi film than a true horror with the aliens almost humanoid and not beasts, the focus on the recovery rather than the graphic kills, and an important error within as the ones we did get weren't very violent anyway, and the large sections of time devoted to the unraveling of the mystery surrounding the device instead of the aliens going after people, so as a horror film this one here is sorely lacking and really not worthwhile. Some of the action scenes are pretty nice and get some decent moments in, including the arrival and wiping out of a security troop on the base in a fun shoot-out, but this is totally undone by the rather insipid idea that comes in at the very end where the loyalties might be questioned by both sides, yet nothing is done with it and it's incredibly disappointing and confusing. Not a whole lot here to like at all. Rated Unrated/R: Adult Language and Violence.

I'm a writer, so I totally get what people are saying about plot holes and such, but it's a good film. Very action-packed, and you could pick out your clichés with your eyes closed, which can be fun. Jake was funny, and I'm so glad he managed to shoot the Jeep; at least -somebody- understands that stopping the vehicle is far more practical than aiming to kill the driver. Monica was okay, as far as relatively unimportant female love interests go, and it amused me that she was shrieking for Jude during the scene in the forest despite obviously being meant to be Jake's love interest. She's only rather pretty, too, which is always a plus when you've gotten used to love interests who exist solely for the male audience to gawk at (Mikaela from the new Transformers movies, I'm staring you down, right between the eyes.). Jude, well, Jude was awesome. He had this amusing twitch in the right side of his face, and I was thinking it would make an interesting drinking game. Also, I found his protectiveness when concerning Jake to be very, very, -very- sweet. This is the sort of thing that differentiates the good aliens from the evil, world-asploding aliens. However, he had a very out-of-character moment when he shot Diamond Joe and kidnapped (for lack of a better term) Monica, which confused me immensely, given that I'd been lead to believe he was a good guy. Kronnan was a useful villain and a good liar, but there's not much else to say about the guy.

When two aliens fighting against each other in their spacecrafts crash on Earth at Area 51, a military group goes to the location but they are killed. The former military Jake Townsend (Jason London) seeks news from his brother in the base where his brother serves, and stumbles with the alien Jude (Coby Bell). He is wounded and explains that he needs to find a weapon before the other alien, Kronnan (Jahidi White), activates it to destroy Earth. They team-up with Jake's former girlfriend Monica Gray (Gigi Edgley) to search the weapon while they are hunted down by Kronnan and a paramilitary team. But when Jake meets Kronnan, he tells that Jude is the one who intends to activate the destructive weapon. Who is telling the truth? "Showdown at Area 51" is a lame and dull film with an awfully written story. There are so many flaws that irritates. For example, Jake is angry with Jude in a moment, when the alien is accused of killing his brother, and teams-up with him on the next moment. Jake impersonates a military, trespasses the base perimeter, kills the leader of the paramilitary and the film has a happy end. My vote is three. Title (Brazil): Not Available

The movie is not even worth reviewing, except for the fact that it stars a one-time legitimate actor named Jason London. I know he is pretty much just a pretty boy, but there was a time when he appeared in legit movies. I wonder what happened to him? I can guess, but I dare not say for fear of being sued. Anyhow, the movie is a very bad -- and I mean very bad --- copy of I COME IN PEACE, which was about two enemy aliens duking it out on Earth. In that incredibly silly but fun movie, which starred another has-been, Dolph Lundgren, the aliens at least looked like something from another planet. In this movie, the aliens are an ordinary-looking black guy and someone dressed in what appears to be an ancient aviator outfit. I have seen worse, but not by much. I only watched it for London, who fails to deliver the goods. He reminds me a little of Kyle McLaughlin, another pretty boy who seems unable to act -- at least ever since SHOWGIRLS. Please avoid this one.

Military are caught in the crossfire between two alien humanoids, from different races, one planning to detonate an obelisk(..which will release a pathogen that will wipe out the human race so that it's people can inhabit the earth), the other wishing to save mankind from extinction. Jason London once worked for this secret military organization, giving it up for the love of a scientist(Gigi Edgley), both working in concert with Jude(Coby Bell), an alien warrior with an ax to grind. The evil, monstrously large Omega Centurian Cronen, whose armor withstands artillery, equipped with these odd-shaped throwing stars, is Jude's enemy, part of the race wishing to gain control of the "ether rod", a tool with cryptic glyphs that is specifically designed to either detonate or incapacitate the Omega seed, the weapon located underneath a barn in the middle of a Missouri farmland. If you have seen your share of sci-fi channel movies, you'll know what to expect, the Computer graphic alien ships and weapons used by the warring warriors are cheap looking against real backdrops and people. Mel Fair is Tate, head of the Area 51 military task force operating under the disguise of a Wildlife reserve office. London's involvement has to do with his brother's disappearance and welfare(..he was disintegrated by a mini-bomb Jude intended for Cronen). The tech-uniforms for Jude and Cronen have fancy armor, masks and body shields. The ships look like something out of a video game, except less stylized or cool. I think this one of those movies carrying the "Alien vs Predator" influence, with human paramilitary types casualties of the aliens' combat. There's a western style stare-down between Jude and Cronen certain to amuse. Nice little supporting role for Lee Horsley as a retired military man who has a gem needed for the ether rod to function properly.