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- Verified Buyer
Clearly, the makers did not understand the military, demolitions or much of anything else. The plot of sending incompetent Marines to an island as expendables was lame. And how did these oafs get into demolitions training, let alone the Marine Corps? They would most likely have been dishonorably discharged in record time. As far as demolitions go, I doubt Marines use bright red sticks of dynamite with bright red clock timers. So, an alien spacecraft crashes in Arizona in the 1950s. Ship and passengers are transported to an island where they perform live dissection on mommy alien (why?). Daddy alien is watching from a cage. Only after mommy and fetus aliens die does he have the strength to break out of the cage? The single alien on the loose panics the military into abandoning the island. Before they go, the encase the alien ship in concrete and kill off all the people on the island to cover things up. 30 years later they suddenly want to clean up their mess by sending in the expendable goofballs who are told that they are there to sweep the island for expended ordnance. Stupid concept. Badly written. Some of the actors did okay but the rest not so much. Of course, with a bad script, no amount of acting talent is going to matter. As for the alien, he was pretty lame. He appeared now and then to kill someone or to look menacing (not well done). His powers were apparently "chameleon" abilities and laying webs, which Marines and assassins (there to kill the Marines) were stupid enough to get stuck in. I'm not sure why the military did not just hunt him down 30 years ago saving us from this pathetic excuse of a movie. Oh, and there is the old man who survived the massacre 30 years ago. He is the typical castaway character who has lost his mental capacity. He has no resources but has the power to run a projector so the Marines can watch a film about the alien dissection. At the end, the alien makes his escape. For reasons unclear, after 30 years the ship suddenly has the power to blast its way out of the concrete enclosure and fly away. I only finished this movie to see how much worse it could get and I was not disappointed.
