Alien Warfare Review

Can a Navy SEAL and CGI make for a good movie? Let’s take a look shall we?

The Scores

Interest: 6/10

Acting: 5.5/10

Storyline: 5/10

Intensity: 4/10

Fights Guns or Otherwise: 6.5/10

Nudity: 1/10

Director Score: 4.5/10

Musical Score: 1.5/10

Dialogue: 7/10

Logic In The Film: 7/10

Alien Warfare is a 2019 film Released only to Netflix. The genres the film exhibits are Action and sci-fi. Its run time is one hour twenty-eight minutes. The three main stars of the film are Clayton Snyder (Best known for The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Mondays, and The Reunion), David Meadows a former Navy SEAL (Best known for Captain Phillips, Imperium, Age of the Living Dead, and Alien Warfare) and Daniel Washington (Best known for Detroit, Alien Warfare, Defending Jacob, and Saul at Night). The director is Jeremiah Jones (Best known for 1,800 Days, CarJack, Alien Warfare, and Dream/Girl). A quick summary of the film is “Navy SEALS Investigate a strange science outpost that is inhabited by formidable alien soldiers” Let’s do this review folks.

Interest: This movies interest took a long while to finally get me wanting to watch it (about forty minutes or so if I remember correctly) but once it did I had fun with it. The movie isn’t very good at all though, but the thick layers of cheese in this film with the strange choices in dialogue and actors being really strange as well as fitting their roles. The CGI used is old but not 2003 old, just about 5 years or so, and is used in such a way that makes sense and fits, rather than being the main stay of things.

Acting: The acting is pretty okay, It isn’t stellar or out of this world, but it isn’t so bad that you wished these people would get thrown out of the movie. The characters were believable and fun, but weren’t perfect, you couldn’t get a feel for what a person wants next. I guess shallow is perhaps the correct term, but to me still feels wrong, you knew the characters, but sometimes they just didn’t present what they wanted to do next well, and you couldn’t guess either.

Storyline: the storyline of the film is okay as well. It is there and makes the movie move, but it isn’t making a large sprawling world with intricate pieces and make you fill with wonder. It is there to give you a place and a thing to deal with, and that is as far as the storyline in this film goes, it isn’t in depth, it is truly shallow.

Intensity: Most of the intensity of the film doesn’t happen until about fifty minutes in because literally nothing intense is happening. There is a scene of two that is supposed to be a bit intense, but comes off just cheesy. Once it does get intense, it’s still cheesy, but you feel like something can actually be lost, that there is weight behind actions.

Fights, Guns, or Otherwise: The Fights are mostly gun fights, but a few fits fights happen as well and also these fights are goofy and funny. Verbal lashings were plenty especially when two brothers are on the same Navy SEALS team, and I don’t believe anyone really has any mental scaring from the things happening in the film.. The gun fights were okay, if a bit bland because aliens are always incredibly overpowered and don’t allow what would be a good action sequence to blossom into something. Near the end it does start to get better, but there is virtually no bloodshed, no casualties, nothing visceral, and what is shown is that crappy CGI blood that low budget film makers have been using that ends up looking like glorified Clip-art from the 90’s on the walls, and I’d rather you put no blood than that crap on the screen, The verbal lashings were solid, but seemed almost as if they were said as jokes and not in a serious manner, the movie could have had a much more serious tone, but for what I presume the budget must have been (real guess: $1,000,000, Goofy guess: Some blow and hookers and someone who accidentally dropped off three kegs of beer) it’s just a damn shame really in this category.

Nudity: Surprisingly there was no nudity in this film at all. The most you get is a girl in a lab coat finally taking off the lab coat, and she is wearing a tank top. That’s it, not saying it’s good or bad, but from a film like this, I figured we would have seen more than that in nudity.

Director Score: The director, while just getting his feet wet in the movie world, is really I think going to be a “just better than asylum films” movie director. What I mean is, the shots are cool, and he finds ways to make things interesting, but his picks for actors, the way they act, the art, the meaning, and the scripts he helps write, will never be better than 80’s schlock crap, and the problem is I think most of them are doing it for a paycheck, not for the love of the art. I’d like for me to physically eat my words on this, but I guess we will see.

Musical score: The musical score I didn’t know existed (so much so I had to look up to see if there was any music in the movie) If it did help, it was done subtlety, and if it didn’t, well just par for the course of the film.

Dialogue: The dialogue in the film was okay. Mostly what really stops it is the strange obsession with protein shakes and a blender of a single character, and just strange dumb banter. Some of the dialogue troupes I've seen in other war movies that are more serious and about the same quality as this film. So all in all it’s just okay.

Logic in the Film: So the logic in the film was pretty solid I’d say, Nothing seems to be super out of place or make no sense at all. I would maybe say that they have to much ammo or don’t reload enough, but I also wasn’t counting all in all maybe the one of few saving graces of the film.

Did I like the film? Ehhh, not really. Would I suggest it? If you’re going to rip into it or have a child that is ten or older that is into military movies or sci-fi movies that aren’t completely gung-ho Hurrah style film, and also doesn’t swear or have boobs flying everywhere either. It’s just meh in all sense of the word. Nothing stood out, and it’s still below average, but not so bad it would be fun on a lone watch. My score for the film is a 48% and honestly I don’t suggest to watch it. This flick was a let down of definitely the Action genre, and probably the sci-fi genre, and there are way better things to watch on Netflix. Until Next Time!