Alien Outpost (2014)

Don't believe the ratings. Read the reviews!

This movie was featured on Netflix's home page, and even though the still from the movie looked cheesy I decided to check the IMDb rating first. The rating was 4.6, but thankfully I've made it a practice nowadays to read the featured review - I was rewarded with an entertaining watch!

This is a well made war movie! I was never bored during the movie, the storyline kept me intrigued, and I never felt like I was watching an enactment. The best part was that it did not have any known faces and that made it more of a "this-is-how-it-happened" kind of documentary-movie.

I will definitely recommend this to any war movie buff. Or to any Counter Strike fan!

And don't miss the extra footage at the end of the credits!

Fmovies: As others have written I, too, was a bit hesitant about watching this movie, having read previous reviews. I have to say I really don't know what movie the nay-sayers watched. This movie was excellent! Tense, great acting, great, well paced action. It didn't have to depend on cg or big name actors. The love that the soldiers feel for one another is delivered flawlessly. I've been a fan of science fiction for most of my life. Having said that in the 40+ years that I've been watching Science Fiction I place this movie right at the top of the "Invasion" genre.

If you trust nothing else I say in this review, which I also will say is the first I've ever written, it is that you shouldn't trust the negative reviews and watch the film for yourself.

Once you get through the low budget look and the long "what the heck is going on here?" the movie sucks you in and by the time the long final scene comes, you are totally immersed in the story and come to care for the characters. with a bigger budget, this story could turn into a great movie with possibly a sequel. the suspense is working and you never know who is going to bite it next and who will survive, if any. I would definitely would like to see more of the back story, or what comes next (don't forget to wait for the extra scene at the end of credits). Aliens are a bit woody but not too bad considering the budget they had to work with. at first I was sure this is going to be like Cloverfield or Godzilla where you barely get to glimpse at pieces of the monsters if at all, but here the aliens are noticeable and have, if not significant, than a respectable showing.

Alien Outpost fmovies. This was a really well made film. As a disabled veteran I enjoyed the insight into military camaraderie. Well worth my time. Shooting the goats of the locals was a jab at soldiers that I didn't think was accurate or beneficial to the film. Hence the 8 instead of 9 for the film. The alien technologies mixed in with identifiable everyday "Earth" elements was well done. It did feel like it was encroaching on Earth and did not belong. The staging and cinematography was top notch. I really hope they do a sequel. I think you will see more from this director and his team. Being a scifi buff I again liked the blending of reality with fantasy. I could envision something like this happening.

Perhaps I'm biased because I work in the film industry, but it makes me mad when crappy reviews come out about films with concepts and ambitions that obviously outweigh their budgets. Everyone wants more money to make their films, but the question regarding talent is what do people with the resources afforded to them.

This film gets under the skin, parallelling contemporary American foreign policy whilst giving a balls-out ride into a post-victorious alien invasion scenario.

This is what I like about ALIEN OUTPOST. It's smart. It delivers a sic fi action film on a fraction of the budget of a Hollywood Studio flick, but because of its low budget it can afford to take time to build the characters and take risks that the Studios wouldn't allow.

This was an OK movie to me and I was surprised that it got such low overall score. The premise was unique and grounded (relatively speaking) in the reality of what might occur if a failed alien attack took place.

The acting was OK. There were a few two dimensional characters, but I felt the relationship between the soldiers was on point as well as some of the male bonding hazing.

When one of the soldiers died you really felt the emotion of the team.

The special effects for the budget were pretty good and the ending was solid as was the build up.

I would definitely watch a sequel to the movie.