Absolutely the worst movie.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

When an alien crash-lands in Area 51, a former soldier and his girlfriend try to help the being recover a device stolen from a rival alien species that will annihilate Earth before it can launch the initial codes for it to happen.There wasn't a whole lot here that really wowed me over, as it ends up feeling more like a sci-fi film than a true horror with the aliens almost humanoid and not beasts, the focus on the recovery rather than the graphic kills, and an important error within as the ones we did get weren't very violent anyway, and the large sections of time devoted to the unraveling of the mystery surrounding the device instead of the aliens going after people, so as a horror film this one here is sorely lacking and really not worthwhile. Some of the action scenes are pretty nice and get some decent moments in, including the arrival and wiping out of a security troop on the base in a fun shoot-out, but this is totally undone by the rather insipid idea that comes in at the very end where the loyalties might be questioned by both sides, yet nothing is done with it and it's incredibly disappointing and confusing. Not a whole lot here to like at all.Rated Unrated/R: Adult Language and Violence.

No matter what mood you are in and how bored you are- do not watch this piece of trash. It's not justifiable to watch yet another such US movie? If you bored, join the US army but don't watch this. How much did it take to make this? I'm a Sci Fi Fan, Independence Day was awesome and so old. What profit is bought to the World creating stupid ass low budget movies like Showdown at Area 51??? How did they get it out onto the screens or straight to video - (wotever u call it). OMG the world will be such a better place if only there was a minimum standard to pass movies as watchable but noooooo, some US people actually like this stuff??? I reckon this should be removed from records because it's not doing anyone any favours to get a chance to watch this.

I'm a writer, so I totally get what people are saying about plot holes and such, but it's a good film. Very action-packed, and you could pick out your clichés with your eyes closed, which can be fun.Jake was funny, and I'm so glad he managed to shoot the Jeep; at least -somebody- understands that stopping the vehicle is far more practical than aiming to kill the driver.Monica was okay, as far as relatively unimportant female love interests go, and it amused me that she was shrieking for Jude during the scene in the forest despite obviously being meant to be Jake's love interest. She's only rather pretty, too, which is always a plus when you've gotten used to love interests who exist solely for the male audience to gawk at (Mikaela from the new Transformers movies, I'm staring you down, right between the eyes.).Jude, well, Jude was awesome. He had this amusing twitch in the right side of his face, and I was thinking it would make an interesting drinking game. Also, I found his protectiveness when concerning Jake to be very, very, -very- sweet. This is the sort of thing that differentiates the good aliens from the evil, world-asploding aliens. However, he had a very out-of-character moment when he shot Diamond Joe and kidnapped (for lack of a better term) Monica, which confused me immensely, given that I'd been lead to believe he was a good guy.Kronnan was a useful villain and a good liar, but there's not much else to say about the guy.

Military are caught in the crossfire between two alien humanoids, from different races, one planning to detonate an obelisk(..which will release a pathogen that will wipe out the human race so that it's people can inhabit the earth), the other wishing to save mankind from extinction. Jason London once worked for this secret military organization, giving it up for the love of a scientist(Gigi Edgley), both working in concert with Jude(Coby Bell), an alien warrior with an ax to grind. The evil, monstrously large Omega Centurian Cronen, whose armor withstands artillery, equipped with these odd-shaped throwing stars, is Jude's enemy, part of the race wishing to gain control of the "ether rod", a tool with cryptic glyphs that is specifically designed to either detonate or incapacitate the Omega seed, the weapon located underneath a barn in the middle of a Missouri farmland.If you have seen your share of sci-fi channel movies, you'll know what to expect, the Computer graphic alien ships and weapons used by the warring warriors are cheap looking against real backdrops and people. Mel Fair is Tate, head of the Area 51 military task force operating under the disguise of a Wildlife reserve office. London's involvement has to do with his brother's disappearance and welfare(..he was disintegrated by a mini-bomb Jude intended for Cronen). The tech-uniforms for Jude and Cronen have fancy armor, masks and body shields. The ships look like something out of a video game, except less stylized or cool.I think this one of those movies carrying the "Alien vs Predator" influence, with human paramilitary types casualties of the aliens' combat. There's a western style stare-down between Jude and Cronen certain to amuse. Nice little supporting role for Lee Horsley as a retired military man who has a gem needed for the ether rod to function properly.