This film was okay, but not great. Apparently, it's original title was Alien vs. Alien, but it was released as "Showdown in Area 51".
The plot is that two aliens land on Earth, one with the intention of allowing a weapon called the Omega Seed to wipe out all life on Earth so they can harvest our pollution. It really doesn't seem like much of a plan, as others have noted. (Love the Bizarro World comment!) The key to the weapon was lost on the spaceship that crashed in Roswell in 1947, but the real Area 51 is in Missouri guarded by the Forest Service. Yup, the Forest Service is the real Men in Black. Who knew?
Okay, so you have slacker dude Jake who got kicked out, introduced by his brother who still works there, doing all the exposition before being vaporized by alien baddies. Slacker Jake teams up with the good alien and looks up his old girlfriend, Farscapes Gigi Edgely. I really wasn't a fan of her performance here. I think she was trying too hard to hide her Aussie accent, and for some reason her posture was bad for much of the film.
So after some confusion as to which murdering alien they should trust, they manage to deactive the doomsday device. The aliens decide that they are going to retreat after that. Again, makes no sense whatsoever. If you have a whole invasion fleet, why would you only send down one guy to make sure your bomb goes off. Why not send down a whole team of these guys, and secure the thing? Why not just attack with your fleet and take out the inferior Earth forces?
Still, it's better than average for a direct to DVD release.
The plot is that two aliens land on Earth, one with the intention of allowing a weapon called the Omega Seed to wipe out all life on Earth so they can harvest our pollution. It really doesn't seem like much of a plan, as others have noted. (Love the Bizarro World comment!) The key to the weapon was lost on the spaceship that crashed in Roswell in 1947, but the real Area 51 is in Missouri guarded by the Forest Service. Yup, the Forest Service is the real Men in Black. Who knew?
Okay, so you have slacker dude Jake who got kicked out, introduced by his brother who still works there, doing all the exposition before being vaporized by alien baddies. Slacker Jake teams up with the good alien and looks up his old girlfriend, Farscapes Gigi Edgely. I really wasn't a fan of her performance here. I think she was trying too hard to hide her Aussie accent, and for some reason her posture was bad for much of the film.
So after some confusion as to which murdering alien they should trust, they manage to deactive the doomsday device. The aliens decide that they are going to retreat after that. Again, makes no sense whatsoever. If you have a whole invasion fleet, why would you only send down one guy to make sure your bomb goes off. Why not send down a whole team of these guys, and secure the thing? Why not just attack with your fleet and take out the inferior Earth forces?
Still, it's better than average for a direct to DVD release.