BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

manjodude Alien Hunter is a movie with a simple storyline, good performances and nice effects but there's some confusion or lack of clarity in few scenes that involves the alien and the humans, in particular a scene where it or whatever it carries kills few of the characters and not others. I wasn't convinced how these survivors got lucky, the explanation provided felt quite simplistic. Besides that, I found the movie kinda dull, especially the drama or suspense in the later half. James Spader in the lead role of an "alien hunter" gives an above average performance. The rest of the cast are all fine actors but I was surprised to see the sprinter Carl Lewis! He acted quite well, wish he'd more screen time. Overall, it's a decent timepass and if any aspect of the story nags you, the message board here can be of some help.Verdict: okey dokey.

Aidan Doyle By god does this movie suck really bad. My first review i shall use as a starter to reviewing this awful mess of was is seen to others as cinematic enjoyment. This movie has a basic plot made complicated. I had no idea of what the hell was going on at times. The story is (i think?) of some guy who is obviously the guy who survives at all times in this cheesy sci-fi some crytography who is somehow needed for coding some alien message that crashed landed with a ship in the south pole (or north, it does't even matter where). People their are dead as alien kills, is killed and people escape. Is this not cinematic genius such as alien in which had me excited to see an alien kill people, but alien hunter the thing only appears for like ten minutes and dies easily. The title is misleading as well (in a way) as the alien hardly hunts and i thought this would have been a spin off of the predator movie. The acting is bad and effects are lame, script writing is bad and silly. This film bored me completely and is a horrific mess made. Hardly worth anyones time. I would not recommend this film, but if you really want to see a film that is worse than batman and robin or home alone 4. Check it out. Horrible film. 0/5

Scarecrow-88 A NASA Antarctic Station which is working on an experiment with corn have discovered a "vessel" of some sort encased in ice and store it inside a docking area for further study. "Language expert" and cryptologist ( a professor who had ties to a NASA project dedicated to extraterrestrial life which was shut down) Julian Rome is sent to the station to see if he can "uncode" a form of language emanating from whatever is inside the quickly-melting ice. Spader does so by using mathematics and eventually succeeds making a startling discovery which says not to open the vessel which contains an alien life form that has a pathogen which infects humans. Unable to stop crew members who did not know what was awaiting them inside that vessel, open it with a cutting blade unleashing the pathogen which kills some immediately while others' immune systems develop resistance to the infection. But, the US government could not take the chance of total annihilation of the earth and so must fire a nuclear weapon into the Antarctic Station, informing Julian and the remaining survivors that they have three hours before the weapon blasts them to kingdom come. While "Alien Hunter" does "borrow" material from other science fiction from the past, it is not a complete replica of "The Thing" or "Alien". The Alien inside the space pod which crash landed on Earth isn't a menace, but there were plans to "integrate" with the human race. It is recognized in the dialogue of Julian's mentor, Dr. John Bachman (Roy Dotrice), that Mars suffered extinction because of the Alien race which threatens Earth in the plot. A fascinating conclusion, however, offers a chance for that integration, as well as, grants a possible reprieve to condemned members of the crew as the time for the station's bombing looms near. Janine Eser is Dr. Kate Brecher, once a student—and lover—of Julian's, wanting him to put aside their past feelings in order to work together on board the station. John Lynch is brilliant geneticist, Dr. Michael Straub, who becomes a hindrance because he does not want to die and the notion of awaiting his death inside the station causes him to act irrationally, leading to a gun going off (after it is stolen from a crew member during an altercation, with the use of a fork leading to Straub getting a hold of the gun and shooting frantically at anyone who threatens to stop him from trying to escape), with victims caught in the crossfire. Nikolai Binev is geneticist Dr. Alexi Gierach, an old colleague of Julian's, the wise scientist whose opinion is of the utmost importance to those around him. Leslie Stefanson is Nyla Olson, a member of the crew along with Aimee Graham, which also includes Carl Lewis as the radio operator and Anthony Crivello as a helicopter pilot forming an alliance with the frightened Straub (the one responsible for the fork attack towards the end during his attempted escape with Straub).Some of the special CGI effects are decent for what is basically a syfy channel product. Of course, Spader's presence in the cast adds major star power to a film—he must've agreed to perform in the film when he read the script and noticed dialogue of a sexual nature (with subtle innuendo included), along with how women are drawn to him. I don't necessarily mean that as a slight against him, but most of his films always feature a college girl desiring him or other women attracted to him. "Alien Hunter", though, doesn't develop any sexual complications, settling into a sci-fi story about possible apocalyptic gloom and doom for humankind if the alien pathogen is released into the earth's atmosphere. Spader's characters often keep their cool, are rational and logical, approach difficult situations without indulging in histrionics, and that is no different here. Julian, such as when he meets the freed alien on the loose somewhere in the station, doesn't wish to harm it but greet the life form, as others, like Straub, want to kill it out of fear. The screenplay, written by JS Cardone, does seem to carry an influence from 50s sci-fi, while containing modern techno-babble we are accustomed to in the "X Files age".

JRmf This was an OK movie for sci-fi buffs looking to kill an hour and a half, but check your brain at the door, enjoy the ride and the SFX. The visuals of the alien spaceship are spectacular and some of the best I've seen.Numerous plot holes left a lot to be desired however, and ultimately a sense of dissatisfaction. Wasn't whatever was inside the alien shell supposed to facilitate the destruction of the whole Earth? So how come the survivors (those who weren't immediately killed by contact with it) were "beamed-up" into the alien ship into who-knows-where? The threatening looking alien in the shell turns out to be rather helpless and looking for support, and is quickly dispatched by a bullet or two. Staff at the base do briefly turn on one another but not in any really convincing way. The movie seems to be a hodge-podge of ET, Alien, Cocoon, The Thing...Not entirely hopeless and quite engaging at a superficial level, but not standing up to any serious inspection. 6/10