AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)

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

Aliens are invading the earth, and winning the war. Several 'arks' are leaving earth to ensure the survival of human beings elsewhere. Two of them, the 'Isaac Newton' and the 'Albert Einstein', crash on a jungle planet. It looks like paradise only at the first glance, but actually it's full of hostile aliens. The survivors have to fight together against invisible enemies, the so-called Chameleons, supported only reluctantly by a local humanoid race.Adrian Paul as Frank Baum plays the military leader of the team, who was on the 'Albert Einstein' only by accident. Richard Grieco as Captain Crowe doesn't have a good role: he is carried around injured half of the time. Bali Rodriguez as green skinned alien woman Lea is a winner. Gray Hawks as TIM, an android in the tradition of Star Trek's Data, handles the difficult part very well, not too robotic.This is actually a nice B movie, a survival challenge against various aliens, and although most of them are humans painted in funny colors, they also added a few CGI creatures from giant spiders to giant lizards, creative for the low budget.

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.

A Thunder Levin flick.Exciting beginning,Kind of STARSHIP TROOPERS.Then the crew lands on a Alien Planet ? and goes into PREDATOR filmterritory.We get a 'Sci-Fi Channel' swim ( That means the screamqueens tiny bikini AIN'T coming off) aka AVATAR.The title is similar to a 10 year old CG flick TITAN A.E.. It has two of our favorite B-Movie tough Guys ADRIAN PAUL (Highlander) and RICHARD GRIECO (21 Jumpstreet).The spaceships are really nice,The aliens are BAD (Predator mode) and GOOD (THE MOLE PEOPLE) and the ending was a Great Payoff.