ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

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

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

wes-connors Run for your lives, Earthlings! The Kulku are coming! Seriously. Due to a disease infecting their race, these aliens need human blood to survive. They may err in focusing their attention on the beautiful blonde daughter of stiffly heroic Brad Johnson (as Stephen Chase). She is one of those "selected" as a sacrificial donor, and the Kulkus' existence depends on the blood of pretty blonde Erin Ross (as Heather). Even strapped down on a table, Ms. Ross is very pretty. But, big problems occur because Mr. Johnson doesn't want his daughter to be sacrificed. Managing half-snarls, he goes after the blood-thirsty invaders...The Kulku aliens look just like Earth people, but with whitened eyebrows. They also have circular communications patches pasted on their faces...These aliens seem incredibly stupid in how they go about their mission, but the script does mention them needing a specific amount of blood in a timely manner; it really isn't logical, but they do try to construct an interesting sci-fi plot. Director Robert Stadd and his crew have one striking scene when alien Nathan Anderson (as Kor) dressed in white picks up a reddish ball, which causes a little girl to run away in fear. However, "Alien Siege" is almost completely unnecessary. There is no reason, either creatively or financially, to stop re-runs of "Dark Shadows", "Star Trek" and "The Outer Limits" for this kind of product.** Alien Siege (2/26/2005) Robert Stadd ~ Brad Johnson, Erin Ross, Lilas Lane, Nathan Anderson

JaynaB This could have been a hidden gem under the withered hide of a really dead horse. It was neither jewel nor offal, but something in the middle of the made-for-TV SF oeuvre.With expectations that low, I was pleasantly surprised to find the ideas behind the script - the themes, as it were - a bit more intelligent than usual. And the effects were not spectacular, but not bad either.Sadly, the dialogue sucked. Fortunately, there wasn't much of it. A couple of seriously cheese-eating statements of patriotic duty would have any of the serving military I grew up with rolling in the aisles. Handsful of short, declarative sentences, some unbelievably clichéd, interrupt the fairly standard action sequences. No long-winded monologues from either the heroes or the villains; that's gotta count as a plus.The acting was about as bad as you'd expect, but erring on the side of less emoting rather than more; another minimalist plus.Overall, not as bad as many I've seen, and slightly better than I was led to expect by the wildly varied reviews prior to mine.

David My wife and I started to watch this film the other night with the intention of just seeing 10 minutes or so before we went to bed, but ended up watching it all. My wife is definitely not a sci-fi fan (unlike me) but she still enjoyed this.Yes, the effects are awful (the original series of Star Trek had better) and I would agree with others on how bad some of the acting was (funnily enough you could tell who the evil guys were by how bad their acting was, although even the good guys weren't that much better). However, it was definitely watchable and dare I say it, even mildly enjoyable.In summary, the kind of film that is worth watching if it happens to be on air and nothing else worth watching is on, but not worth actively seeking out.

emolina979 Aliens harvesting humans to save themselves from a plague! Humans turning over their own to save their lives! I think the makers were trying to address some Big Moral Issues about what people would sink to in order to save themselves, but this movie just gets lost in the details. It is very distracting when the alien soldiers dress like waiters. Also, stand straight up in the open when someone shoots at them (I guess this proves they are not human?). And it's very disconcerting the way the humans shoot them with machine guns, and just happen to get them right between the eyes - even if only a couple of times. Then there's the earth resistance, who are desperate to get alien technology to turn it back on them, and never actually try to pick up the sidearms the alien soldiers drop when the resistance fighters kill them by the truckload (well, they don't take cover - do they?). They need a Scientist who was studying Wreckage from an Alien Crash to figure out that we can use their weapons. There's a lot of this stuff - too much for a good action movie, and not enough explanation, character development, etc. for an issue movie. Thud.