![]() But hey, I suppose the actors and actresses were having fun making this project come to life. The acting performances in "Alien: Battlefield Earth" were every bit as wooden and rigid as the poor CGI. It was as if the CGI department were cut short of funds before adding the detailing textures and finishing animations. And needless to say that the aliens in the movie looked nothing near as interesting as they did on the cover/poster. Sure, I suppose it was supposed to be telepathy, perhaps, but come on. The animation was wooden and rigid, and I was laughing so hard at the lack of animation on the mouths when the aliens spoke. It was like something from a mid-2000s computer game. And to make matters worse, then the CGI used for the aliens was just downright abysmal to look at. So while writers Andrew Jones and Sharon Jones were on the right path, the movie was a swing and a miss. The storyline in "Alien: Battlefield Earth" certainly had potential, but it just felt half-hearted and sort of rushed. The movie was nowhere near what the cover/poster insinuated. And also needless to say that the movie's cover/poster over-sells the movie by several miles. Needless to say that the movie's cover/poster was the best thing about the entire ordeal. But I have to admit that I was really intrigued by the movie's cover/poster, because it looked really interesting. First of all, I had never heard about the movie, and the title alone was just oozing with low budget and questionable sci-fi. Right, well I have to be bluntly honest and say that I harbored zero expectations for the 2021 sci-fi movie "Alien: Battlefield Earth" when I stumbled upon it here in 2022. Another wretched "Walmart" horror/sci-fi film and the worst US/UK co-production since World War II. There's even a non-ending in an apocalyptic future which sets up an unwanted sequel. The production values on this aren't too bad for this sort of thing but it's just such an uninteresting, unfocused slog it just has precious little to offer. Unbelievably Earth holds it's own in the battle and the Greys want to sue for peace. Apparently the Grey/Human war has something to do with the Greys from the Roswell crash being held captive. There's some scenes of cities being destroyed and space battles but much of it seems to have been taken from disparate sources (including Ancient Aliens!) so it comes off poorly. There's also lots of dialogue between admittedly well-done CG Grey aliens including a roided up one looking kind of like an alien Bautista. ![]() This is obviously a pandemic era film as none of the cast are ever really together and we get lots of uninteresting zoom dialogue scenes including two characters we barely know and don't care about revealing they are pregnant. You've been warned.Īlien: Battlefield Earth is a confusing, disjointed mess combining Roswell, Ancient Aliens, The Betty/Barney Hill case, Greys and Reptilians all into one almost indigestible stew. It's so bad it crosses "so bad it's good" at near light speed, rams into "bad again" and then drills in the bottom for an hour until it reaches a long time nuclear waste storage facility. Racist, too, which is ironic and sad given the plot. Writing is pretentious and cliché as one would expect. Text-to-Speech is used for a LOT of dialogue. I would hope seeing a buff alien in a wheelchair, Latin symbols on alien devices, and a goddamn dragon all within 5 minutes would be at least strange enough to be funny, but no. I cannot shake the feeling some of the renders are just stolen, due to how inconsistent the assets and even framerates are. It's just a lot of disjointed stock and public footage (including recent anti-vax protests mentioning real people's names), repeated several times to make the movie longer, literal Zoom calls, and below-modern video game renders with I can only guess a collection of random 3D assets one of the creators just happened to have. I approached this movie thinking "it can't really be that bad, can it?" No.
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