PodBill Just what I expected

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Joe Bridge The next plan from outer space (plan 10? 11? 12 1/2?) involves a small group of aliens with white eyebrows. This helps the viewer to understand that they are aliens and not human, although many old HUMANS I have seen do indeed have white eyebrows. Oh well, they tried. Though they come from a distant galaxy, they somehow are able to use (primarily) human blood to heal their illness, and this involves harvesting humans with the government's permission. They hold lotteries, apparently, to see who is going.The makeup is atrocious - some sort of bluish price-reduction sticker on their cheeks and some sort of mossy-coloured squashed play-doh stuck on their neck. I almost expected to see newspaper hats. One Adams-family-like alien talks in a completely different manner and accent than the others. His voice also has such a high, hissy lisp, it is almost above the range of human hearing. I had to really focus and turn the volume up every time he spoke. It was akin to an animated snake reading Gothic poetry. Somehow, he even lisped letters like "b" and "k"...The most hilarious scene in this movie in when the alien tapes a girl's mouth shut with duct tape. This utterly ridiculous scene should really be put on a special compilation video of bad Science Fiction. So... not only do aliens from a distant galaxy have duct tape, they also carry it on their person just in case a human starts talking and annoys them, apparently.The other funniest thing is that when a car (or space ship) is shot with the laser weapon, it somehow turns into a flying cluster of metal storm gutters and other random bits.A lot of strange stuff going on in this movie, yet not quite hilarious enough to invest too much time in it... Watch Marvin the Martian shorts instead, I think he uses the same weapons.

Leofwine_draca A silly little outing that tells of an alien attack on our planet. Sure, the story is epic in scope, but on a budget that allows for only a couple of shoot-outs in the woods, it doesn't really work.The moment I saw the aliens in white makeup with little radio receivers glued to their faces I knew I was in for a cheesy, sub-STAR TREK style outing. Execrable CGI effects, consisting of laser beams, UFOs and people disintegrating within 'blood bags', are not to be taken seriously.The cast, headed by the wooden Brad Johnson, fare no better. Indeed, one of the only reasons I tuned in was to see Carl Weathers; he's bagged a minor role playing a tough army general. Weathers kicks ass - the rest of this film does not.We're left with a concoction of silly effects, low-rent action scenes and lots of dull pondering over right and wrong while a dozen or so plot holes are generally glazed over. Not the Science Fiction channel's greatest hour, then...

rhobreigh This is a pretty good movie. Much better than the standard Sci-Fi Channel fare. Good action, good VFX, great production value. I liked the actors, and I thought the director did a pretty good job.Most of these movies are crappy. "Alien Siege" tried something different, and for that, it gets a thumbs up. Most of these films "give the audience what it wants," which is an exercise in futility most of the time. That's like chasing your tail. The best part of this movie what that each group here (the aliens, etc.) was right from their own side. That's good, because it's true to life. Watching this movie, and others like it, you get the impression that they're made on the cheap. If that's the case, this is a cut above.

info-imdbcom I kept thinking I was watching a bad episode of 'V' or a poor remake of 'Independence Day' or a bad rework of goodness knows how many other sci-fi shows.The cast all looked as if they could do a good job if only they had little things like a plot or decent characterisation.The special effects ranged from the quite good (the CGI stuff) to the awful (Plastic alien technology). Also will somebody explain to me why when the dead bad guys leave ray-guns lying around, nobody ever picks them up. OK they do right at the end - maybe it takes a while for the good guys to realise that using advanced weaponry might be a good idea?Oh well, it's not the worst sci-fi movie ever, maybe.