Interceptors (1999)

Admirable film.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I was expecting something awful from what I read about Interceptors, but actually it wasn't that bad. Granted it is far from great but there are much worse movies out there. Okay there are a lot of problems, the story is highly derivative with little that comes across as really believable, there are frequent logical lapses all over the place and they are not mild ones, Olivier Gunnar is much better in action than he is as an actor where he is unintelligible and wooden, there is little interesting about the characters and the script is bad enough to make the toes curl. However, it does look as though some effort is made with Interceptors. You can at least see what's going on, the settings are quite good and the photography and editing while not award-worthy are more polished than usual. Likewise, the special effects are not what you call great, a little drab and awkward in movement, but they actually do look finished. The soundtrack is great, it is very energetic and driven with some catchy moments, while there is much fun to had in the action and how its choreographed, and in the entertainment value provided with the attempts made to make the many implausibilities credible. Apart from Gunnar, the acting is not too bad. Interceptors is never what I call dull either. All in all, not great but not terrible either. 5/10 Bethany Cox

You would assume that film-makers faced with the problem of a low budget would strive to make a type of film that required as little funding as possible, for example a film about the abortion debate - all you would need would be a studio dressed up like a courtroom.Well the makers of the travesty that is 'Last Line of Defence' have done the complete opposite and attempted to create an action racket along the lines of Predator and Terminator. In fact thats a bit light, what they have done is blatantly copy these movies.The alien takes the predator form to begin with, camoflaged as it stalks its victims. What this really means is a green cloth placed over a camera and the camera shook about to give an impression as if from the aliens viewpoint. 1 out of 10 for improvisation.It gets even worse later, when the alien takes the terminator form when it can transform itself into any one of the characters in the movie. We are then subject to farcical fighting scenes and whats worse we have to witness more of the horrible acting of what must be the worst cast ever to grace film.Especially bad is the Gruner who the makers see as this film's Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not only is he a worse actor than Schwarzenegger, which when you think about it is an achievement in itself, but he is even 10 times more annoying than Arnie.There is some really pitiful acting here. I mean really bad - only someone with multiple honors degrees in English literature could find the words to describe how bad it really is.I used to think that the Gary Daniels was the worst actor in the world, but the tide has turned. The mantle has been handed over to the Gruner. Absolutely no doubt about it.

The actual overall movie wasn't too bad in of itself but it is terrible compared to the predator movies. It has almost the exact same plot as the original Predator. A group of special-forces types are sent in on a bogus mission and start getting picked off by an alien who can turn invisible. The worst part of this rip-off is that they didn't even attempt to hide the fact that they ripped the whole thing off. The most obvious thing being that whenever the view switches to the alien's point of view they used the EXACT SAME sound effects!! If you've never seen Predator a 5 out of 10 if you have... 2.

This film is a "Predator wanabe movie". But it totally lacks everything that made the first two predator movies, and especially the first, appreciated. The acting is lousy and the plot is predictable and unoriginal. The few effects that are there don't blend into the environment (except maybe for the big crater supposedly made by an alien escape pod). If you have seen the predator movies you will have high expectations... don't.