Alien Siege

An alien race invades earth and holds it hostage in exchange for millions of human lives to save their species from a lethal virus. How it's decided is that people are chosen for this fate by some sort of lottery system organised by the world government, but a scientist, Steven Chase tries to save the life of his daughter, who has been accepted. He joins a resistance and they go out of their way to fight off the harvest.

"Alien Blood" is a cheap looking TV feature that's simply very lackadaisical and dead flat when it comes to the thrills. This story is one man's quest to save his daughter's life, and by the way maybe the rest of mankind along the way. Reading a lot of the reviews and I see it takes quite a bagging. Although I don't think it's extremely awful, but still it's bad. Plain and simple, the material was just far from stimulating, despite a decent concept. What we ended up with it is far from clever and unpredictable. The film's production looked glossy, but came across as quite shallow and mostly unexciting. When it gets going it just seems to rush on by, but it doesn't cover too much ground behind some workable facets that are brought up. It might think there's some sort of deep message within its material, but all I got was extreme corn and laughable dialogues. The insipid dribble they fumble out will choke you to death! Oh my, it was way too talkative with such wretched details and not to BRIGHT actions (just wait for the last 10 minutes!).

The direction is by the numbers and performances are pretty stilted. Brad Johnson was terribly uninspired in the lead role as Steven Chase and the foxy Erin Ross plays his daughter Heather. Yep, even Carl Weathers didn't get up too much. Watch out for the stiff looking aliens that look like they are dressed up in white business shirts and black trousers. Special effects were fine I guess for such a production, but they can only do so much and it wasn't enough here.

An undemanding Sci-fi yarn that pretty much had me yawning more often.

I watched this partly because of the huge gap between the positive and negative reviews here on IMDb.

It's hard for me to believe that there's anyone PAYING IMDb reviewers to pump up the reviews for anything at all, much less a relatively low budget made-for-sciffy-channel waste of time. But hey, since you're obviously out there somewhere, drop me a line, I could use the spare change... Okay, just kidding.

But it's terrible. Of course you'll probably need to make your own decision, but when you do, count my vote on the "for goodness' sake DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME" side. I hope for your sake reading these reviews is ALL the time you waste on this movie.

The ONLY positive I can think of is that SOME of the acting wasn't horrible. All the special effects are, most of the writing is (some of it's merely mediocre), and although I don't consider myself much of a judge of directing or cinematography, it certainly isn't good enough to redeem this turkey.

I've learned my lesson. I was going to skip this movie until I checked it out on IMDb. Wow, three people gave it a pretty good review. Maybe it's worth a chance. After watching the movie, it now appears these people had some vested interest in posting other than a fair review of the movie. Take, for instance, Jon H Ochiai. After I saw this terrible movie, I wondered who in the world would recommend an obvious stinker like this. So I took a look at some of Mr. Ochiai's other reviews. This guy appears to be someone with classical training as a movie reviewer, except there are no bad recommendations in his voluminous collection of reviews. I'm guessing there must be some cottage industry for people that can't land a steady gig for a real media outlet, so they pump these movies while they wait for an honest job.

Lesson one: Sci-Fi makes terrible movies. I'll not watch another premier.

Lesson two: There are people that pump these movies just like they have people pumping stocks on Yahoo. Though I still have trouble envisioning the economic model (are they really paid, or like the bad guys in these movies, are they just pure evil).

Lesson three: There are no low budget movies with four writers that are worth watching.

My wife and I started to watch this film the other night with the intention of just seeing 10 minutes or so before we went to bed, but ended up watching it all. My wife is definitely not a sci-fi fan (unlike me) but she still enjoyed this.

Yes, the effects are awful (the original series of Star Trek had better) and I would agree with others on how bad some of the acting was (funnily enough you could tell who the evil guys were by how bad their acting was, although even the good guys weren't that much better). However, it was definitely watchable and dare I say it, even mildly enjoyable.

In summary, the kind of film that is worth watching if it happens to be on air and nothing else worth watching is on, but not worth actively seeking out.

The writing is so awful that it's sometimes hard to believe the actors went through with reading their lines. Judging from the barely contained expressions of disgust and embarrassment on the faces of some players, you can tell they can barely believe they're reading these lines. Porn would have been a more dignified career choice.

The CGI budget seems to have been spent on two very nicely done shots of the alien ship hovering above the planet. Everything else looks like the rudimentary placeholders that CGI artists block in while making the final design.

Speaking of special effects, while I can buy the humanoid features of the alien race the silly accents were a bit much. I did, however, appreciate the unintentional humor of the alien personal communication system, which appeared to be activated by the alien tapping something resembling a giant zit on their cheeks.

Also providing much unintentional humor: The enthusiastic paid shills who posted here well in advance of this sewage airing on SciFi.