Alien Siege (2005)

I love movies, whatever genre, whatever year and whether they are good or bad. I wasn't anticipating very much, considering the unoriginal if somewhat intriguing concept and that it was a low budget TV movie airing on a channel notorious for producing bad to bottom-of-the-barrel movies. And it was actually worse than I expected, with mostly fake-looking effects(though there are a couple of decent ones) and choppy editing. The script contains some of the cheesiest, intelligence-insulting and most stilted dialogue I've heard from any of these movies, the characters are annoying and walking clichés and the story is unexciting, contrived and incredibly hackneyed(I would have forgiven the lack of originality if the movie was actually interesting, and it never was). The acting is dreadful, with the actors looking bored and stiff and Erin Ross' style of acting I have seen before and much better as well. In conclusion, cheaply made, badly written and acted and quite frankly an insult to the intelligence. 1/10(and that's only for the couple of decent, and I put that term generously, effects) Bethany Cox

The next plan from outer space (plan 10? 11? 12 1/2?) involves a small group of aliens with white eyebrows. This helps the viewer to understand that they are aliens and not human, although many old HUMANS I have seen do indeed have white eyebrows. Oh well, they tried. Though they come from a distant galaxy, they somehow are able to use (primarily) human blood to heal their illness, and this involves harvesting humans with the government's permission. They hold lotteries, apparently, to see who is going.The makeup is atrocious - some sort of bluish price-reduction sticker on their cheeks and some sort of mossy-coloured squashed play-doh stuck on their neck. I almost expected to see newspaper hats. One Adams-family-like alien talks in a completely different manner and accent than the others. His voice also has such a high, hissy lisp, it is almost above the range of human hearing. I had to really focus and turn the volume up every time he spoke. It was akin to an animated snake reading Gothic poetry. Somehow, he even lisped letters like "b" and "k"...The most hilarious scene in this movie in when the alien tapes a girl's mouth shut with duct tape. This utterly ridiculous scene should really be put on a special compilation video of bad Science Fiction. So... not only do aliens from a distant galaxy have duct tape, they also carry it on their person just in case a human starts talking and annoys them, apparently.The other funniest thing is that when a car (or space ship) is shot with the laser weapon, it somehow turns into a flying cluster of metal storm gutters and other random bits.A lot of strange stuff going on in this movie, yet not quite hilarious enough to invest too much time in it... Watch Marvin the Martian shorts instead, I think he uses the same weapons.

I enjoyed watching this film from the Sci-Fi Channel. The action sequences were well done and the story had more to it than you would expect. This movie is well crafted in classic Sci-Fi fashion. It takes a modern philosophical question and examines it. It was sort of like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" meeting Star Trek. The Kulku, a race of humanoids whom are scientifically far more advanced that humans, need to harvest people in order to ensure the survival of their race. The Kulku feel that they are a superior race and that the people of earth are beings of low intelligence. If you look a step deeper into the movie (understanding that the great apes share 99% of the genetic code as humans, yet experiments are constantly performed on them for our benefit), "Alien Siege" poses some interesting afterthoughts. Overall it is a fun movie and an interesting take on the theme. Definitely worth watching.

Among the hundreds of watched movies this must be one of the worst.. Pretty much everything is plainly wrong with it. No offense to people trying to make low budget movies, SciFi or not, au contraire, this movie is a mold in the eye for those who's REALLY trying to make something good with whatever budget the might have. Script, directing, dialog, acting, lightning, camera, CGI and again.. the SCRIPT, they must have been drunk on Kulku. If U against all odds found "V" to be entertaining prepare for a amazingly if possible even worse ripoff. Sorry guys (director Robert Stadd, writers Bill Lundy, Paul Salamoff) but plz don't quit your day jobs, OK. The only feeling left after watching this *hrmftpp* "movie" is anger, anger due to dragging SciFi in the dirt..