Extraterrestrial (2014)

A Major Disappointment

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

What I learned from such movies is that there is always one jerk who attracts trouble, there is always one bully who f****s-up the whole situation in the end and there is always on f***er who just walks underneath the spaceship or super curious a$$***le. Even those aliens were kind enough to spare the lives of that girl and boy. It our own government who killed them. So, who is the monster ? Food for thought. The last two background songs were pathetic. Why that gentle policeman had to die ? and Travis too. Not everyone except lead characters had to die in a survival movie. Last but on the least, what's up with that bloody anal probe ? I know that guy was a complete asshole but simple disembowelment could have sufficed.

This is a low budget, and a low in almost everything little movie. It is watchable if you don't care and have friends to talk to and a lot of popcorn.For example, it all start with a frenetic woman in shock who is running in pouring rain for help. She reach a store which is closing, so the responsible simply lock the door on her saying "we're closed" and don't give a heck that she is in trouble and urgently need help in that remote area.After that, we notice that she is not wet, even if she was running in the rain. She then run to a phone booth to call 911. We can see that she is in a light dress, almost a night dress with nothing else (she is running for her life). An alien craft then come over her head and suck her in. But by magic, the policeman that comes after to investigate the scene, finds in the rubble guess what… the woman's wallet with her picture! Where the heck was she keeping that wallet?Anyway, it is just an example in order to describe the lack of work in that movie. For the rest of it, it is again really bad aliens that violently kidnap people in order to torture them.

Started out promising while the characters in the beginning seemed promising until I realized, they're all bland and boring AND are cliché we have the Pothead, The Jock, Pretty girl, Dumb Blonde, Hipster and ALIENS!!! So at some point in the film, they're all partying and having a good time until GUESS WHO COMES TO CRASH THE PARTY? YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!! ALIENS!!!!! There's a lot of cliché moments that had me yawning and nearly shouting "F**king stop!!!" There was a moment and *Spoilers* This blonde chick leaves the car during a serious scene in which a UFO is hovering over their car! she looks up at this thing while others are screaming at her and guess what, she gets abducted and guess what!! They obviously ripped some of that off of (Fire in the sky) (1993) The Aliens also look really, well, MEH. I hate this film, I HATE IT SO F**KING MUCH!!! Destroy it! Someone please destroy this horrible movie, wipe it from existence! 1/10, Don't spend nor waste data on this horrible "movie"

The best way to get anything out of Extraterrestrial is to watch the first 10 minutes and the last 40 minutes and so treat it as a solid X Files episode, because it sadly does not work as a full-length feature. While the alien action is sound enough (although it breaks no new ground), the film just does not hang together due to stilted scenes that often run on too long (including one or two botched 'jump scares'), and it is somewhat ironic that the Vicious Brothers were not vicious enough in the editing suite. Consequently, if the directors had pared the film down to around 80 minutes then it would work well. As it is, however, the tale loses momentum badly in the middle with the inclusion of a number of static and visually incoherent scenes, and the use of the always-watchable Michael Ironside handily revealing the alien plot to keep things moving and deal with any questions as to the purpose of the aliens (who are indeed plural, so surely the title of the film should be Extraterrestrials?). However, the last 40-30 minutes do go some way to redeeming the film, and while sci-fi clichés abound (although I suspect that they are conscious science fiction homages), the ending is satisfying (with a rather good intertextual link to a certain iconic TV show).