AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)

Simply A Masterpiece

Nice effects though.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Another flick from The Asylum. People still buying those flicks and it do offer something for The Asylum. It never made a loss on any film made buy them, go figure that one out. This one here is another perfect example of an Asylum production.The script is simple, a no-brainer. The effects are cheaply done some do work other don't. And loosely based on other flicks. The humanoid here do wink towards Alien's Bishop. The 'chameleons' are based on Predator. But naturally it doesn't work well like those classics. But it isn't one of the worse kind coming from them. It's watchable even as the story falls together in the middle. If you like B-movies then this is worth picking up, if you think you will see the next gem, forget itGore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

If you base your review on the first 10-15 minutes of this film I can see the low rating, because the acting does starts out pretty poor. Once you get past that the acting does improve and the story is worth watching. Some of the concepts do 'borrow' a few unique ideas from at least three other films/TV series, those being Predator, Star Trek Next Generation, and Planet of the Apes. This was obviously a low budget film, so if you are looking for multi-million dollar state of the art special effects, you may be disappointed.That said, if you like a decent story, the acting really does get better and it was an enjoyable film.

The budget for this film is ~$1 million. Most of which was used on the graphics for the movie poster, which will trick just enough people into renting/ purchasing this movie to recoup the original investment. The rest were spent on hair products for Richard Grieco.I realized that I had been swindled when I saw the main actors were Richard Greico and the guy from the Highlander series. Essentially, military rules are suspended in the future, as the surfer-haired Captain Greico takes orders from Lt Highlander throughout the movie. But they do manage to fit about 12 people in their Earth Escape Craft, before crashing into a zoo on an alien planet, which was essentially 8 crates in the middle of a cornfield, after which they get chased around by aliens who possess the power of invisibility.This all happens in the first ten minutes.Then it gets less believable and more stupid.

The movie starts out with earth under attack and the population who apparently only is 20 people is evaccing off the planet in space ships.The main character is a soldier that ends up on one of the ships during the assumed chaos.He wakes up from hibernation and find the crew is hunted by stealthy aliens.The acting is pretty bad. It has the all the flaws a b movie has when its bad, shaky handcam wooden dialogs plot holes and non likable characters.Like all bad b movies it feels the need to keep a high pace without it adding content.Airsoft guns and some cgi and you have it nailed down. There is no reason to care about anyone since its not believable or developed.The background is not explained or anything else either. I think the reason for the high pace is to try and avoid showing the flaws in the acting but it only makes it worse.So you starts the story nowhere and it goes nowhere and in the meantime its not any point to get interested.Avoid it if you can.