Alien Dawn

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Audience Member One line summary: Full of sound and fury, signifying less than nothing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aliens invade the SW USA. They make sounds like 1950s aliens, most specifically, the sounds in War of the Worlds, 1953. Characters named Brad Raybury and Joni Mitchell? Good grief. Soon enough, the story centers on survivors are Marissa, Anders, and Roger, with no resources to speak of, and no plans. They have long arguments about what food is common, and what is not. These folks are pointless. They care more about bickering than about surviving. Later they join up with Sera and Tiffany. This is a tough one. Should I root for the powerful, effective aliens or the feckless, lame moronic humans? ------Scores------ Cinematography: 2/10 Some of it is bad; much of the rest is really bad. The found footage parts were as atrocious as expected. Sound: 2/10 Terrible. Leveling was done by someone who hates audiences. Acting: 0/10 Terrible. All the performances. All the characters are unlikeable. There are too many absurd arguments about ridiculous non-issues. If one is going to have a mostly eastern European cast, why not film in eastern Europe to save money? Screenplay: 0/10 Very stupid dialog. Rips off War of the Worlds and Skyline rather openly. The depictions of ultimate stupidity (Woman asks for water. Man forces a cup of bleach down her throat. Man gets excited; does not know why the woman is suddenly in acute distress.) were fairly convincing. How are such lame, incompetent people to make any progress against the aliens? Cell phones work during this invasion? Not for long. The military hands out heavy weapons to civilians? Nope. SFX: 0/10 Incredibly bad. One of the worst jobs I have ever seen, beginning to end. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member While I enjoyed the lofi FX, this War of the Worlds rip off is not only a poor watch but actually tarnishes the great film. If you thought the Tom Cruise film was a let down, check out Alien Dawn and start re-thinking your opinion of that modern remake. The film is filled with poor acting, directing, editing, sound, and the few pieces of "originality" in the film have no basis in reality. Apparently there are some phones out there that allow you to go 10 days without needing to charge them all the while you are using them to shoot video. And during an alien invasion, power is likely going to stay on for days and days and days, meanwhile most the population seems to have been "captured" or killed. And where all the military might of the US can't seem to make a dent in destroying alien vehicles, a dude with some frag grenades and pipe bombs takes them out relatively easily. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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