Name: Alien Armageddon (2011)
IMDb: page for Alien Armageddon
Genres: SciFi. Country of origin: USA.
Cast: Katherine Lee McEwan as Jodie Elliot, Don Scribner as Cowboy, Rochelle Vallese as Franci, Ben Cain as Markus.
Written and directed by: Neil Johnson. As well as directing film, Johnson is a metal rocker and a director of music videos. Street scenes filmed in Paris, France and Los Angeles, USA; studio work done in London, UK.
The Three Acts:
The initial tableaux:
The aliens invade, and take over or destroy most places on the Earth.
Jodie looks for her daughter in Los Angeles, which is mostly controlled by the aliens. There's talk of taking the war to the aliens.
The delineation of conflicts:
The overarching conflict would be the aliens versus the remnants of humanity.
In the first minutes of the film, all the military of all the nations of the world, with millions of trained fighters, with trillions in gear, including nuclear weapons and sophisticated communications, failed at defeating these aliens.
After the initial onslaught, we have a few women banding together to fight the aliens. Opposing them are the aliens. Also opposing them are the facts that they are uneducated, highly ignorant, have no military equipment, and no military experience. Indeed the protagonist fails in this approach.
The invaders (described as nephilim) can only eat their own flesh, so they infect humans with DNA-altering virus, which renders the flesh edible. Nice. Then there are other transformations that allow the upper class invaders to inhabit human bodies and rule. So, things look impossible for the human race.
However, the nephilim have their own traitors who have conducted biological experiments on imprisoned humans. The traitors hope to use the results to undermine their opponents.
Resolution: The renegade nephilim hope to defeat their opponents across the entire planet. Will they succeed?
One line summary: An absurd fight of alien vs alien.
Statistics:
Cinematography: 2/10 Terrible in the prison interviews with Cowboy. Incredibly bad film editing. Jumpy hand-held cameras. I've seen some beautiful content streamed as HD on Netflix, and this is not it. It always looks fuzzy or distorted or loaded with third rate special effects. In the second half of the film, the camera works smooths down a bit.
Sound: 6/10 Usually good enough. There was plenty of flatulence, barfing, and flesh being rendered; those came through clearly in the sound track.
Acting: 1/10 Never good. Hiring some actors might have been of value. Jodie from Los Angeles and the Cowboy from Wyoming speak in UK/Cockney. Oi.
Screenplay: 1/10 Stupid sentences, lack of motivation, invisible plot. Tiresome irrelevant PC pandering: human beings are worthless past being food for some parasitic invader; only females, whether human or invader, can cause change, even if that change comes about by being eaten.
Special Effects: 1/10 This might have looked good in 1957; then again, perhaps not. Cheesiest mushroom clouds ever. Shows a person looking at a nuclear explosion and then squinting (nonsense; he'd be blind). The aliens are supposedly the nephilim from the Old Testament. Aliens are clearly humans in rubber suits, and not gigantic humanoid beings with angelic powers. In this version, the overlords are slugs, and the biggest special effect is that of slugs wiggling through blood.
Final Rating: 1/10; four blackholes for cinematography, acting, screenplay, SFX.
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