Well, I can't exactly say that I was harboring great expectations to the movie titled "Showdown at Area 51", as I stumbled upon it by random chance here in 2023 and opted to sit down and watch it. So why watch it, you might ask. Well, because it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, nor actually heard about.
Writers Ari Graham, Brook Durham and Kevin Moore collectively managed to put together an insanely bland and laughable storyline and script here. It was so generic and cheesy that it was painful to watch.
I managed to suffer through a staggering 38 minutes of absolute boredom and blandness of narrative storytelling before I called it quits, threw the towel in the ring and gave up. And I have zero interest in returning to the movie and giving it a second chance of finishing it. I got zero entertainment from the storyline and the one-dimensional characters that milled about on the screen. Not to mention the laughable "aliens".
The only familiar face on the screen was Jason London, and not even he stood a chance at salvaging the train wreck that is "Showdown at Area 51".
Visually then you're in for a hilarious treat of low budget, shoddy CGI and props. The CGI was just something reminiscent of discarded early 1990s PC game graphics. And the practical effects, costumes and props looked like some makeshift thing designed on a shoestring budget and on the fly. The two alien creatures were simply some of the worst I have seen, it looked like rejects from a "Mad Max" audition, and you don't believe for a second that they are supposed to be alien lifeforms.
"Showdown at Area 51" is a low budget movie, and not the good kind. And do yourself a favor and don't waste your time, money or effort on this dumpster fire of a movie. Some of us suffered through it, in greater or lesser extend, so you don't have to.
My rating of "Showdown at Area 51" lands on a one out of ten stars.
Writers Ari Graham, Brook Durham and Kevin Moore collectively managed to put together an insanely bland and laughable storyline and script here. It was so generic and cheesy that it was painful to watch.
I managed to suffer through a staggering 38 minutes of absolute boredom and blandness of narrative storytelling before I called it quits, threw the towel in the ring and gave up. And I have zero interest in returning to the movie and giving it a second chance of finishing it. I got zero entertainment from the storyline and the one-dimensional characters that milled about on the screen. Not to mention the laughable "aliens".
The only familiar face on the screen was Jason London, and not even he stood a chance at salvaging the train wreck that is "Showdown at Area 51".
Visually then you're in for a hilarious treat of low budget, shoddy CGI and props. The CGI was just something reminiscent of discarded early 1990s PC game graphics. And the practical effects, costumes and props looked like some makeshift thing designed on a shoestring budget and on the fly. The two alien creatures were simply some of the worst I have seen, it looked like rejects from a "Mad Max" audition, and you don't believe for a second that they are supposed to be alien lifeforms.
"Showdown at Area 51" is a low budget movie, and not the good kind. And do yourself a favor and don't waste your time, money or effort on this dumpster fire of a movie. Some of us suffered through it, in greater or lesser extend, so you don't have to.
My rating of "Showdown at Area 51" lands on a one out of ten stars.