Yes, the bad reviews are correct - this movie misses the mark by a fairly wide margin. Lame-ish, low-budget special effects? Check. Disjointed, sometimes incoherent, editing? Check. Inexplicably-illogical story points? Check. The script, itself, desperately needed at least one good rewrite before shooting started, by someone who understands how humans actually speak. Not even the most talented and dedicated troupe of performers could have recited some of that stilted, wooden dialogue without coming off as... well... wooden and stilted!
Had the writer and director tried just a trifle harder, pushed it just a little further over-the-top and not taken themselves quite so seriously, they might have delivered some entertaining tongue-in-cheek "disaster comedy", rather than this "tragic disaster". It probably wouldn't have equaled the "madcap tomfoolery" of, say, "Lavalantula", starring the inimitable (...or should that read, "inevitable"?) Steve Gutenberg, but it still could easily have been humorous, nonetheless.
As it stands, however, the only really worthwhile part was the fact that, eventually, their Big Military Operation was code-named "Monster Zero", a delightfully-hilarious reference to a much older energy-beam-spitter, also with three heads, albeit in a slightly different way!
BTW, kudos to an earlier reviewer for recognizing the monsters - according to Amazon Prime's "X-Ray" feature, they were, indeed, recycled directly from Asylum's "Dragon Crusaders"... Good eye!
Had the writer and director tried just a trifle harder, pushed it just a little further over-the-top and not taken themselves quite so seriously, they might have delivered some entertaining tongue-in-cheek "disaster comedy", rather than this "tragic disaster". It probably wouldn't have equaled the "madcap tomfoolery" of, say, "Lavalantula", starring the inimitable (...or should that read, "inevitable"?) Steve Gutenberg, but it still could easily have been humorous, nonetheless.
As it stands, however, the only really worthwhile part was the fact that, eventually, their Big Military Operation was code-named "Monster Zero", a delightfully-hilarious reference to a much older energy-beam-spitter, also with three heads, albeit in a slightly different way!
BTW, kudos to an earlier reviewer for recognizing the monsters - according to Amazon Prime's "X-Ray" feature, they were, indeed, recycled directly from Asylum's "Dragon Crusaders"... Good eye!