Sick Product of a Sick System

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Originally titled "UFO" this film follows a group of five young adults who currently are located in one household. The opening of the film appeals to people with ADD as multiple subplots are flashed across the scene, including one with George (Jean-Claude Van Damme) which seems to be an after thought.As aliens come to earth, the action is focused all on this one group with alien special effects being light until the end when the CG guys take over the film.I accidentally clicked on the director's commentary and saw Dominic Burns. He looks like he was a kid who spent his time on comic books, video games, and getting his lunch money taken away. Indeed this is the type of film I would expect from someone like that operating on a budget, using a line like, "Being a controller short of a Play Station."Once we get past the ADD opening, the film centers into some character build-up until the alien ship appears. At this point the film can't get over its low budget constraints as our same group of humans struggle. A subplot showing London command or perhaps the aliens themselves inside their ship would have been a welcomed change. Instead of flipping scenes every 10 seconds in the beginning, save some for the end.Simon Phillips does his typical good job and should have been billed as the star instead of Van Damme who doesn't appear until late in the film and that is to just supply us with an explanation.. which would have been better if the aliens had done it themselves.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Maya Grant, Phillips' butt)

I was one of the lucky ones. I got to watch this bore-fest for free because I had an advance viewing.Aside from a very weak story and a very long set up, this was dreadfully tiring to watch because of non-stop swearing which didn't add anything to the movie, but really took away from it.There were unneeded sex scenes and prolonged opening bar scenes which once again did nothing to add to the story, but rather took away from it.As a British citizen myself, I found this extremely hard to understand because of poor dialogue and bad actors delivering not only boring, bland and uninteresting dialog - but also being very hard to understand because of very thick accents and very poor editing and sound recording.The camera work is shaky and sloppy, the story is shaky and sloppy, the actors are shaky and sloppy...in general - the entire movie is just shaky and sloppy.I saved the cost of a rental or purchase and still din't benefit from that.

A bevy of uninteresting characters, and it's hard to know why they even hang out. But they keep hanging out, having flashbacks or flash forward or flash to never-never land... and I just could not wait for some sort of alien invasion to start! Random plot for the first 1/3 of the movie finally leads to a space ship appearing. Thank you! But long sequences of looking at people's faces looking at something is not suspenseful... it's just filler to stretch out this disaster of a sci- fi film. Asylum "mockbusters" are so bad they're kitch and funny. This is not interesting, funny, scary or entertaining. It's annoying and filled with unlikable characters that had me cheering for the aliens!

U.F.O is a real mess of a movie... a mixture of genres that go together about as well as oil and water. On the bright side though, it's a MUCH better film than the opening moments would suggest. During them, we see a bunch of idiots drinking at one of those awful rave parties, where they move like zombies and exchange the most pathetic chat-up lines ever. Then, we have two simultaneous sexual encounters... interspersed with footage of someone vomiting into a toilet. Nice. Fortunately, the next morning, the power goes out, mysterious ships start appearing in the sky... and things get a LITTLE more interesting...Everything here feels perfunctory... there are a few moments where we see people panic-buying, and turning on each other... but nowhere near enough, considering the situation. Instead, we get a few mildly diverting space battles, some oddly placed martial-art fights (Well, Jean-Claude Van Damme DOES appear for all of 10 minutes, they had to give him SOMETHING to do), lots of bickering and plenty of unnecessary supporting characters. Injured little girl, and the 'comedy' duo of soldiers, I'm looking at YOU.It really is hard to make sense of anything that's going on. WHY are the aliens identifiable by a tattoo? WHAT is that damn preacher banging on about? WHEN the evil extraterrestrial girl has a chance to kill all the goodies, why doesn't she take it? Other not-so important stuff apparently includes where the UFOs came from, what their goal might be, what they look like when they're not disguised as people... etc. And as for the clusterf*** (Yep, I went there) of a conclusion... Answers on a postcard pls to tell me what the heck was happening. Be careful, though you may lose your mind trying to figure it out. Still, at least it's better than the Roy Chubby Brown flick of the same name. Now THAT'S a quote to put on the posters... 4/10