Invasion Earth

Starts out with scene showing alien spaceships will be here in 3 mo.

By the time the movie really shows any significant "invasion", it will seem like 3 mos. in real time have elapsed.

There is nothing extremely objectionable.

But nothing redeeming at all either.

How they got actors to take part in this production is a mystery.

While set with a back-drop of folks with issues, you'll be reaching for your opium pipe in about 1/2 hr. Then you'll, like, be in the movie. Cool.

I viewed Invasion Earth this year. In 2022. The same year of mass protests in my home country, when millions of people marched in protest of the militarization of the police and said police's killings of unarmed civilians. Do you see now why portraying the mass slaughter of civilians as a good thing comes across as tasteless? I'm certain the movie did not mean to come across this way: the filming apparently wrapped in May of 2019, long before the protests began. But given the context of what's been happening in the world, The Blackout: Invasion Earth has already aged like milk left out in the sun. There are certainly good things about Invasion Earth, but I can't in good conscience recommend it.

Every science fiction trope is used without irony or any sense of meta. The film opens with the Window 3.1 starfield simulation screensaver. Dialogue is so quiet you can't hear what they are saying, which is good most of the time because you don't want to hear what they are saying. Except the adverts on the free service I'm watching it on are destroying my ears every three minutes! It is ugly to look at and unbelievable unrealistic content. No real story. No original characters. Most of the characters are thoroughly dislikable. Acting is not good but Jon-Paul Gates and Charlotte Gould whose over-the-top performance is just about entertaining. It's all far too rehearsed. The characters act like they have self awareness but in reality they really wouldn't have any understanding of why they do what they do. Pacing is actually tolerable, so much stupid stuff happens it's actually more entertaining than most low budget garbage. The visual effects wouldn't look bad twenty years ago... Now they don't look good. Overall I didn't hate it but I would also say not to waste your time, watch Evil Aliens (2005) or maybe Attack the Block (2011). It feels like an interesting exploration into the nature of addiction set to the backdrop of a cheesy alien invasion. The aliens looked terrible, leather outfit with a bad mask.

I couldn't watch this movie. It was like whoever made it, didn't want me to watch it. I'm not sure why someone made this. Maybe it was part of a tax shelter. Maybe it is money-laundering. Remember the plot for The Producers? They were trying to make a Broadway play, which would fail, so they could keep the investment money. Maybe that was the plan of whoever made this movie. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site; which has many indie films, foreign films, older major studio films, and now, live TV.

What tf was that? It's supposed to be an alien flick, and instead, it's a therapy session for a bunch of pathetic losers. In the last 20 minutes there's a guy in a bdsm suit and mask with the zipper clearly visible.

This was literally just an agenda driven movie to make you sympathize with all the "oppressed people", and a white racist guy. Shocking...What tf was that? It's supposed to be an alien flick, and instead, it's a therapy session for a bunch of pathetic losers. In the last 20 minutes there's a guy in a bdsm suit and mask with the zipper clearly visible.

This was literally just an agenda driven movie to make you sympathize with all the "oppressed people", and a white racist guy. Shocking...What tf was that? It's supposed to be an alien flick, and instead, it's a therapy session for a bunch of pathetic losers. In the last 20 minutes there's a guy in a bdsm suit and mask with the zipper clearly visible.

This was literally just an agenda driven movie to make you sympathize with all the "oppressed people", and a white racist guy. Shocking...