Showdown at Area 51 (2007)

Simply Perfect

Best movie ever!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

When two aliens fighting against each other in their spacecrafts crash on Earth at Area 51, a military group goes to the location but they are killed. The former military Jake Townsend (Jason London) seeks news from his brother in the base where his brother serves, and stumbles with the alien Jude (Coby Bell). He is wounded and explains that he needs to find a weapon before the other alien, Kronnan (Jahidi White), activates it to destroy Earth. They team-up with Jake's former girlfriend Monica Gray (Gigi Edgley) to search the weapon while they are hunted down by Kronnan and a paramilitary team. But when Jake meets Kronnan, he tells that Jude is the one who intends to activate the destructive weapon. Who is telling the truth?"Showdown at Area 51" is a lame and dull film with an awfully written story. There are so many flaws that irritates. For example, Jake is angry with Jude in a moment, when the alien is accused of killing his brother, and teams-up with him on the next moment. Jake impersonates a military, trespasses the base perimeter, kills the leader of the paramilitary and the film has a happy end. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): Not Available

The movie is not even worth reviewing, except for the fact that it stars a one-time legitimate actor named Jason London. I know he is pretty much just a pretty boy, but there was a time when he appeared in legit movies. I wonder what happened to him? I can guess, but I dare not say for fear of being sued. Anyhow, the movie is a very bad -- and I mean very bad --- copy of I COME IN PEACE, which was about two enemy aliens duking it out on Earth. In that incredibly silly but fun movie, which starred another has-been, Dolph Lundgren, the aliens at least looked like something from another planet. In this movie, the aliens are an ordinary-looking black guy and someone dressed in what appears to be an ancient aviator outfit. I have seen worse, but not by much. I only watched it for London, who fails to deliver the goods. He reminds me a little of Kyle McLaughlin, another pretty boy who seems unable to act -- at least ever since SHOWGIRLS. Please avoid this one.

Military are caught in the crossfire between two alien humanoids, from different races, one planning to detonate an obelisk(..which will release a pathogen that will wipe out the human race so that it's people can inhabit the earth), the other wishing to save mankind from extinction. Jason London once worked for this secret military organization, giving it up for the love of a scientist(Gigi Edgley), both working in concert with Jude(Coby Bell), an alien warrior with an ax to grind. The evil, monstrously large Omega Centurian Cronen, whose armor withstands artillery, equipped with these odd-shaped throwing stars, is Jude's enemy, part of the race wishing to gain control of the "ether rod", a tool with cryptic glyphs that is specifically designed to either detonate or incapacitate the Omega seed, the weapon located underneath a barn in the middle of a Missouri farmland.If you have seen your share of sci-fi channel movies, you'll know what to expect, the Computer graphic alien ships and weapons used by the warring warriors are cheap looking against real backdrops and people. Mel Fair is Tate, head of the Area 51 military task force operating under the disguise of a Wildlife reserve office. London's involvement has to do with his brother's disappearance and welfare(..he was disintegrated by a mini-bomb Jude intended for Cronen). The tech-uniforms for Jude and Cronen have fancy armor, masks and body shields. The ships look like something out of a video game, except less stylized or cool.I think this one of those movies carrying the "Alien vs Predator" influence, with human paramilitary types casualties of the aliens' combat. There's a western style stare-down between Jude and Cronen certain to amuse. Nice little supporting role for Lee Horsley as a retired military man who has a gem needed for the ether rod to function properly.

Do you have one of those friends who takes sadistic pleasure in bringing utterly crappy z-grade sci-fi movies back from the video store? Now you know how I was forced to have this travesty irreparably burned into the synapses of my brain.Anyhow, you may have noted that I gave this utter dreck three out of ten. Was it the utterly unnecessary presence of TV's Matt Houston? Nope. The "I'm in it for the paycheck" performance of Gigi Edgley? Guess again! That's right, it was the totally unexpected presence of a mint '67 Rambler Rebel SST convertible right in the middle of the picture! "My God!" I shouted, frightening the dog and making Dave jump in his chair, "I have found a redeeming feature in this movie!" I actually watched the thing all the way to the end based on this fact, and I still could not tell you what the hell happened.