If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

My verdict: Not good nor bad, I would call it an okay-movie. Good enough for watching one time - if you like movies like Carpenters The Thing. The movie is clearly a homage (or rip-off) to Carpenters movie, even the "monster" got a similar look of the original from 1982. What Harbinger Down really lacks imo is suspense - the movie just runs down the path of this kind of movies straight and nothing, and I mean really nothing unexpected happens at all. Another point why Harbinger Down can't catch up to The Thing - the characters are shallow and boring so you can't really connect to them (at least I didn't) and if one dies you really don't bother at all. Anyway, connoisseurs of the genre may dare a look.

Saw this movie and thought it might be a nice movie, until they show "Dutch Harbor". Funny thing is, I used to live there for a good number of years. This movie didn't even come close to reality, did no one even research the location? There are NOT that many trees there and the landscape was completely wrong. I couldn't even watch the rest, knowing they made such a glaring mistake from the get go. I will probably end up watching the rest, if only to see the other mistakes im sure are there. Hopefully they put more thought in the rest of the movie, although I currently don't have high hopes that it will be all that good.

You can catch this on Netflix. If you've got nothing better to do, go ahead and watch. This is a definite attempt at John Carpenter's "The Thing". The monster is a virus type thingy that grows and can shape shift. It takes out the drama of it shifting into human form. It just goes from monster to liquid and back again. Everything is moderate for this movie from acting to script to special effects. The budget was probably pretty low, so take that into account. To top it all, the ship was supposed to explode at the end and it doesn't so you can add editing issues to the list. The monster is kind of fun to watch, but not overly scary.

In one sense, this is a special case. In another, it deserves the same critical treatment as everything else. Low-budget, independently- produced movies need to compete on the same playing field as the big stuff. We don't want Kickstarter funding to become an excuse. On the other hand, some of the crueler reviews have, I think, a rather rose- tinted view of what 80s creature features were really like. They weren't all Aliens. That's magic in a bottle, and it isn't available to order for any amount of money - or Hollywood would be able to buy it, which it's becoming increasingly clear they can't.So, with these mixed views in mind, I rather liked Harbinger Down. If it sets out to avoid becoming saturated in embarrassing CGI, it succeeds, but naturally more is required than that. The performances are fine, given the painfully thin script - people knocking the actors need to consider the writing they've been given. The script is perhaps most kindly described as functional, and barely so. Henriksen is, of course, a massively experienced guy, and always a pleasure. The cinematography is absolutely rock-solid and a great advertisement for both Benjamin L. Brown and the staggeringly low-cost camera it was shot on. Both the pictures and Christopher Drake's score, and of course the creature effects, elevate the film way, way above the depths to which many low- budget sci-fi movies fall.So let's not be too harsh on Harbinger Down. Behind-the-scenes shots suggest that the creature effects could have been made more of on screen, a fair criticism that's been raised before, and the script is a letdown. But again, it's a genre creature feature. For a bit more creature and a bit more story and characterization it could have been better, but on the off-chance that some sort of renaissance of the golden age of sci-fi and fantasy filmmaking can be launched from this movie, or movies like it, I'm enthusiastic. If Blomkamp does get to do Alien 5, he'd be an idiot not to involve Woodruff and Gillis.