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Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

capone666 Alien NationThe hardest part of recovery for an alien drug addict is not annihilating everyone at the intervention.So, hopefully, the cops in this sci-fi movie can keep a new drug off the streets. Homicide detective Sykes (James Caan) is assigned a new partner, but is hesitant on account he's a Newcomer (Mandy Patinkin), an alien race that came to Earth three years ago. Sykes finally agrees, hoping it'll lead to his partner's otherworldly killer.Their unconventional coupling instead uncovers a scheme by an extraterrestrial kingpin (Terence Stamp) to flood the market with a space drug that has violent effects on Newcomers.A high-concept analogy on immigration that is reduced to a buddy-cop comedy thanks to its by-the-numbers mystery and hammy leads whose banter is painful. So, it's no surprise that this concept was later developed for television. The biggest problem with alien cops, however, is all their unwarranted anal probing. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

SnoopyStyle An enslaved alien race in a spaceship lands in the dessert. A few year later, the aliens called Newcomers are being incorporated into human society. L.A. police detective xenophobic Matthew Sykes (James Caan) and his partner Bill confront an alien holdup gang. Bill is killed by advance weapon. Sykes gets a new partner in Newcomer Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin). Their investigation leads to Newcomer William Harcourt (Terence Stamp) and his scheme to distribute an alien drug.This is actually a very simple buddy cop movie. They don't get along until they start getting along. The bad guy is literally a drug lord. The problem for so many people seems to be that they're expecting something else. I really like the idea of the alien being incorporated into society. It doesn't mean that all of a sudden the world has flying cars. It is in the everyday things that is interesting. It is what they eat, what they drink and what jobs they get. That's what this movie is doing.

elshikh4 I like buddy-movies. Action, comic, whatever the kind I follow them diligently. Some snatch your admiration, and some cause the excruciation. We all are in search for the perfect buddy. However, there is no wholly perfect anything or anyone ! Movies understood that early. So they put many deficient heroes who could approach completeness, the ever lost completeness, if they passed most of their differences, and put their imperfections together. But, some movies' buddies were too imperfect to stand ! So let's review the top of their most unbearable ones in the past 30 years :10_Roger Rabbit in (Who Framed Roger Rabbit – 1988) : too noisy, not droll, and unhelpful. He was the worst of this excellent movie for sure. And something just eats you about him being married to the Foxy Jessica Rabbit, does it ?!09_Chris Rock in (Rush Hour – 1999) : "The fastest mouth in the west" !!? well, I can tell you one thing : he's the fastest turn-off ever! How come that his name comes first above Jackie ? How come that he was paid more than Jackie ?! How come that he appears as Jackie's sidekick or beside him in the first place ?!! 08_Dana Carvey in (Wayne's World – 1992) : Yes, Myers is nice. But Carvey isn't. His persona, his way of talking, his look, his EVERYHING seemed ultra-silly. 07_John Adames in (Gloria – 1980) : for sometimes you might think that they came up with the Razzie award's idea, in the same year, only because of him. Few times in American movies where the performance was as bad as this (it's bad to a classic extent !). So in the catalogue of the bad acting you'd find Adames's picture ! If you didn't watch the movie, just do it for one scene : the "I'm the MAN" scene ! 06_Stephen Bladwin in (Fled – 1996) : I think that they originally picked him for nothing but being so white in front of Laurence Fishburne ! Now this is the way how Not to deliver comedy ! It comes with another feel this time : silliness ! He's one of the worst partners anyone might have, or WE can watch ! 05_Josh Hartnett in (Hollywood Homicide – 2003) : when one of the 2 leads is the tragedy of their movie ! The movie wasn't that good, but sure Hartnett is that bad ! I'll save "myself" the trouble; just look at his eyes and judge by yourself !04_Dennis Rodman in (Double Team – 1997) : when I first watched the movie I said "what's THAT ?! Are you "beeb" kidding me ?! I had a problem seeing him among all the earrings, the colored hair and the outfits ! This movie is a complete confirmation of something has been said in (Men in Black) : that Rodman is an Alien ! Actually he makes that monster in Alien's movies as America's sweetheart !03_Hooch in (Turner & Hooch – 1989) : the ugliest dog a cop could ever have ! True that he hasn't Chris Rock's gibberish, Dana Carvey's hair, or Stephen Bladwin's hilarity, BUT he has a white sticky long droll.. Which beats all of that already !02_Norman D. Golden II in (Cop and ½ – 1993) : Burt Reynolds got an awful kid as an accomplice, sorry I mean adjutant, and we had a perfect crime ! Yes, dance happily John Adames, because there is someone who's worse than you anyway ! Though, it's not Norman D. Golden' fault only, it's the fault of anyone didn't notice how un-charismatic, unfunny, untalented, un-anything watchable this kid was. Suffice it to say that his smile looks frighteningly evil !01_Mandy Patinkin in (Alien Nation – 1988) : defines nightmare of a partner and movie ! OK, so at least James Caan got money for being in this garbage, but the poor us got Patinkin' look, this garbage as well, and nothing more than a taste of deep disgust. I can't forget, after years and years of watching, the moment in which Terence Stamp's character got killed (or dissolved !) it forced me to ask : how low Hollywood can go ?! And undoubtedly Patinkin IS the worst of the worst partners I have ever experienced in a movie. I can't believe his appearance. I mean nobody ever laughed, or stopped to object : what the hell we're doing ?! He was more hideous than Whoopi Goldberg's dinosaur partner in Theodore Rex (This dinosaur is too cute in comparison!). Anyway when after finishing a movie I wish from god that I need not to glance a bit of it again or a shot of its lead once more, then "it" must be a horrible movie, and "he" must occupy the top of this list. (And they made sequels to it ???! OH GOD. Have mercy on yourselves before us !). Finally, if you already have a dear friend as anyone in this list, then it can be your "best buddies" list ! I know, everything is varying for everyone. Otherwise how the makers of these movies didn't see How Silly this group (of gents, kids, rabbit, dog and alien) was !

screenman The cross-culture buddy-cop movie is given a slightly implausible make-over.We've seen 'Red Heat' in which Russian cop, Arnie, is teemed-up with American James Belushi. James Belushi has also featured with a canine partner, as indeed has Tom Hanks. There was American/Japanese 'Black Rain' with Micheal Douglas, and even an item called 'Haven' in which one of the cops was an android. I cannot find that movie referenced on the IMDb, though it was quite fun. 'Robocop' pursued the theme with a human, female partner. There has also been '48 Hours' whereby a white cop teemed with a black crook, slob versus slick. This time the aliens really are alien, though sufficiently humanoid to be un-challenging. Apart from a lack of ear-lobes and a tendency to liver-spots on the scalp, they might pass for human beings. And, of course, white ones. Their appearance certainly didn't tax the special-effects department. If one were to cast about, stranger-looking humans could be found. It's a pretty lacklustre effort crammed with clichés, but is lifted out of the ordinary and given serious intent by the choice of James Caan in the starring role. Caan is a man who knows how to act, and he can be very expressive in an oddly undemonstrative way. It's all done with facial expression and body language. His scarcely concealed racism and contempt for cultural nicety is executed with aplomb, and as the aliens are not even humans, the subject is a ripe field for harvest. The chemistry between himself and his alien partner develops well. Both actors deserve good marks. It could hardly have been easy working with that sweaty cranial prosthetic. The other actors play their parts without express merit or criticism. A barely-recognisable Terrence Stamp has a lot more to offer than he was required to give here, and I wonder at his inclusion in such a limited role. I thought he was wasted. But his gravitas and slightly unplaceable English accent helped highlight his alien persona in such a manifestly American movie.Otherwise, you've seen it all a dozen times before. I was disappointed that the aliens brought no new technology. And nothing of any original value appeared to have been scavenged by either them or us, from their downed spaceship. That seemed highly unlikely. Even damaged technology can be understood and replicated. And if they survived, the ship must have been more-or-less intact. The species vive-la-difference routine was - well, routine, and unsurprising in its surprises. The aliens' favourite foods prove disgusting to human sensibilities. Gosh; that's clever. They drink sour milk rather than fresh. But apparently not cheese. They eat raw meat rather than cooked, and so on. They are soluble in sea-water, but not drinking water. Presumably, they themselves do not contain salt then. In a world so dangerously briney as ours (2 thirds of its surface are ocean) perhaps they would be happier and safer on the moon. There's a humdrum joke about the purpose and size of condoms - oh-dear. And - surprise, surprise - their females are vain and bitchy, and play the same 'seductress' card that human females have played since time immemorial, even having jobs as pole-dancers etc. I mean, come on! It's not exactly imaginative, is it? The plot is about the control of dangerous drugs. This time they're dangerous to aliens. And in an inevitably predictable turnaround of learning-curves, the hide-bound, by-the-book, alien side-kick starts to break the rules; the laissez-faire human cop learns to kerb his chauvinism; and in due course there is reconciliation and mutual respect all round. To describe this movie as science fiction is just a pose. There is no scientific/cultural prognosis whatsoever. Any study of our conflicting and contrasting aspirations is barely touched upon, never mind explored. The idea that these people would be allowed to wander freely amongst humans and develop their lives without the most careful scrutiny is quite absurd. Such liberal thinking certainly wouldn't have outlived 9/11. It is irrational socialist twaddle to suppose that two species of intelligent organisms could thrive side by side on the same planet in some sort of harmonious ideal. Just look how often things break down with our own species. Consider how the indigenous American Indian is still treated today. There is no reason to suppose that we would regard them any differently from a mutated chimpanzee, and exploit them for medical and pharmaceutical advantage. After all; even a normal chimp is intelligent, communicative, self-aware and has theory of mind. It is certainly more cognitive than a human with advanced Altzheimer's disease, and yet still no-one would ever dream of elevating its simian status above that of the vegetative human being. And this despite the fact that we have a common ancestral thread. We are, in effect, their animal cousins. Are we going to usurp them then, and confer equality to beings with which we share no heredity whatsoever, whilst still treating our nearest evolutionary relatives as 'animals'? That is neither rational nor just. Besides; Darwinian logic suggests that one species must otherwise out-compete the other, sooner or later. This happened on Earth many times before. Why should things be any different because one species has spotty heads and drinks putrid food? These 'newcomers' were just a ticking time-bomb.As an intelligent evaluation of inter-species relationships, this item was just vacuous and juvenile. Check-out 'The Day Of The Dolphin'; that was streets ahead. On the other hand; taken for what it actually is - a cross-cultural cop movie - it's an entertaining though predictable romp. James Caan alone redeems it from the ordinary. A TV series followed without him, and cemented its formulaic mediocrity for ever.