Utterly cretinous B-movie with appalling actors, stupid characterization, dumb plot-devices and just all-round ineptitude.
Snipes behaves like a redneck woodsman... except he isn't a redneck. He's a former astronaut, abducted by aliens. Well, at least that's original: most aliens anal-probe cows and farmers, rarely do they pick off NASA's finest. (Or the prison system's finest... coz Wesley...)
The same can't be said for Russia's finest astronuts, i.e. cosmonuts i.e. he isn't so fine: Snipes's Russian buddy for some baffling reason ended up in an American prison. Care to explain that, movie? No, I guess not.
As soon as loverboy sees an alien, he does what? Believe it or not, he starts a fight with blond guy, first a verbal fight than an actual scuffle. Because SOMEHOW seeing aliens turns loverboy into a violent psycho-killer who accidentally shoots his girlfriend - in what is an utterly dumb scene yet somehow very predictable. He then threatens to kill his friends. Fortunately, the aliens realize that he is the bad guy and beam him up just as he is about to once again threaten the others. Because that's what you do when aliens invade: you start hating your friends.
Say what? There's an alien invasion and the "teens" turn on each other? Wut? Who the hell wrote this crap and why were they paid? Were they paid? I hope only in Monopoly money.
In the meantime, for much of the first half, Snipes is shown but almost never heard, never stepping in to help or to offer advice at least. Yet, later on, once the teens are all dead/abducted/crippled he decides to be the hero. Why? Oh right, they were used as "bait". As if Snipes could possibly "lure" these aliens into a trap, or make them do what he wants. The writer must have confused NASA's astronauts with Marvel's superheroes.
When Snipes finally proves himself useful, he catches an alien, TAUNTS it like a child, overacts his hinder off, then kills it.
That's the kind of movie this is. And it's got 25 year-old teens. That too.
The film leaves the best for last: all the abductees are returned to Earth, and the army - once again - are the bad guys, shooting them off. But even that seems unclear: did they get the order to kill them, or did that sergeant (or whatever) make that decision on a whim? It's all so dumb. So pointless. So silly. Unless you consider abducted humans being given Jedi powers a good thing.
An Ancient Aliens plot may sound OK on paper (notice I said OK, not good, because it's so dumb and cliche), but it fails just as badly as every History Channel episode of the said show.
It's just a very dumb and fairly uninteresting film, and nothing I'd suggest even to UFO invasion aficionados.
Snipes behaves like a redneck woodsman... except he isn't a redneck. He's a former astronaut, abducted by aliens. Well, at least that's original: most aliens anal-probe cows and farmers, rarely do they pick off NASA's finest. (Or the prison system's finest... coz Wesley...)
The same can't be said for Russia's finest astronuts, i.e. cosmonuts i.e. he isn't so fine: Snipes's Russian buddy for some baffling reason ended up in an American prison. Care to explain that, movie? No, I guess not.
As soon as loverboy sees an alien, he does what? Believe it or not, he starts a fight with blond guy, first a verbal fight than an actual scuffle. Because SOMEHOW seeing aliens turns loverboy into a violent psycho-killer who accidentally shoots his girlfriend - in what is an utterly dumb scene yet somehow very predictable. He then threatens to kill his friends. Fortunately, the aliens realize that he is the bad guy and beam him up just as he is about to once again threaten the others. Because that's what you do when aliens invade: you start hating your friends.
Say what? There's an alien invasion and the "teens" turn on each other? Wut? Who the hell wrote this crap and why were they paid? Were they paid? I hope only in Monopoly money.
In the meantime, for much of the first half, Snipes is shown but almost never heard, never stepping in to help or to offer advice at least. Yet, later on, once the teens are all dead/abducted/crippled he decides to be the hero. Why? Oh right, they were used as "bait". As if Snipes could possibly "lure" these aliens into a trap, or make them do what he wants. The writer must have confused NASA's astronauts with Marvel's superheroes.
When Snipes finally proves himself useful, he catches an alien, TAUNTS it like a child, overacts his hinder off, then kills it.
That's the kind of movie this is. And it's got 25 year-old teens. That too.
The film leaves the best for last: all the abductees are returned to Earth, and the army - once again - are the bad guys, shooting them off. But even that seems unclear: did they get the order to kill them, or did that sergeant (or whatever) make that decision on a whim? It's all so dumb. So pointless. So silly. Unless you consider abducted humans being given Jedi powers a good thing.
An Ancient Aliens plot may sound OK on paper (notice I said OK, not good, because it's so dumb and cliche), but it fails just as badly as every History Channel episode of the said show.
It's just a very dumb and fairly uninteresting film, and nothing I'd suggest even to UFO invasion aficionados.