Well would you looky here. We have ourselves an 'Alien' clone movie.
A strange unknowable creature that may or may not be killing the crew, a ragtag bunch of Misfits hanging around and a conspiratorial hierarchy with s cold hearted leader.
Yep it's an Alien film, except the Unstoppable Alien is a weird hippy-dippy space gelatin that lives on the water surface of the planet and for some reason wants to communicate with humans to help them with environmental problems.
The film has promised from the start.
A intriguing story, moderately interesting characters and set design that (though cheap) is at least done well enough that it keeps you invested in the world of a film.
But then it just starts to linger as it goes on.
And I swear the movie gets slower as it progresses.
Towards the hour-mark it feels as if it's at a standstill and the movies only an hour and 20 minutes long.
It might sound weird to say but slowing down the movie might have actually helped things out.
Focussed on the space jelly, develop more of the mystery around this weird alien substance.
Get more into detail with the fast evolution of the creature and really dive into how important it is to study the thing.
Make a drama around the mystery itself, instead of just making a generic monster movie where you have to hunt down the strange creature.
Now in this movie's case the actual monster is man himself, but not a lot done with that.
The company is shady from the onset. You can kind of tell something's going to go wrong from the beginning given that we're ripping off both Alien and 2001 A Space Odyssey. The actual Intrigue of the film is thrown out the window too quickly and is cheap-o-fied by revealing the monster as a some silly looking dinosaur puppet that looks like it belongs in a 1970s children show.
I was expecting Alf to pop up at some point.
lamest St Patrick's Day movie, ever. It does have a couple of scenes of crewmembers drinking whiskey for no reason, so I guess that's the excuse to call it a Saint Patrick's Day film.
I didn't even know it was Saint Patrick's Day.
Everything's all screwed up!
I have to wonder what is the point of some of these movies. Or they just cash grabs, is somebody legitimately trying to tell an interesting story, is it some sort of Studio mandate? you at cheap sets subpar acting and generic Scripts.
There's just so many little mistakes you notice.
You can see the wiring on the submarines where they're supposed to be covered up.
Or a man throwing a prop at one of the stage doors. But they didn't cut it quick enough so the prop hits the door and put the big old dent in everything.
Thus showing the set to be made of Styrofoam.
It feels like a lot of these movies could be saved just a bit more editing.
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