The Aliens

2016
6.2| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one.

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Clerkenwell Films

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Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.
Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
Stuart Davies Unfortunately IMDb does not have a negative scaling for reviews especially one capable of indicating the ineptitude of this series, perhaps with the scale increased by an order of magnitude. If it's aimed at being comedic, it simply isn't in any way... a situation comedy consisting entirely of situation. Aliens indistinguishable from humans to keep production costs below the category of Dr Who. The story is ludicrous and the premise for it idiotic and without credibility. Aliens crash land in the UK, whose body hair is a narcotic, and they can cross breed with humans and so are instantly put into compounds were they are oppressed? Aliens capable of interstellar travel wouldn't crash land. They wouldn't be able to cross breed due to basic genetic differences. Their technology and in particularly their weaponry would be years ahead of humanity's and they wouldn't be idiots meaning... blah, blah, de-blah... you get the drift. But the bottom line hear is that if a formula is applied at all, it's simple addition of crap story, paltry production and a target audience of degenerate nincompoops in track suits. I was groaning at its moronic scripts within 30 minutes and turned it off. I'm shocked that the series wasn't canceled during editing as it should have been. Is this the depths to which Channel 4 have sunk?
blacksquareit stupid plot... Aliens come to earth, they're segregated from us and kept in Zones... strong chance they can mate with humans and have little hybrid babies ...oh yes... there's a black market trade selling their hair ...which is a highly addictive and trendy drug that humans smoke....The scene that just threw me off was when they're shaving this one chap so they can get his hair and sell it, but the chap is bald... think about it...really did not get my attention. don't know if I can sit through a whole season of watching people smoke pubes... There's much better on the telly
Reservoir Dogs there is no need of aliens theme, anyways they are human 1No aliens technology at all, so if you are searching for special effect, you're watching the wrong movie, no effect at all!They live in a ghetto ... seriously, they are supposed to crossed the galaxy, and they are just a band of theft and drug dealer ?? again no aliens needed.So at the end it's just a common police investigation TV show series, where the aliens are ... not aliens and do not have any "alien" technology and live in a ghettoHummmm ... that's all!
s3276169 The Aliens, is one of those earthy, unabashed, human drama's the UK does so well. The initial premise is a little reminiscent of District 9. The aliens who arrive on earth as refugees, live in a segregated zone. That said, in this instance, the otherworldly refugees are, in most respects, more human than not. There are some differences, which offer the opportunity for some classic, rather ribald, Brit humour. Alien pacifying sound grenades, for example, that can be rigged to make the aliens run to the toilet. Or alien body hair, that can be shaved off and sold as a smokable narcotic.The acting is good too, with the well cast Michael Socha, who some might remember from the series Being Human, in the lead role. Socha's character's rather sad sack, doe eyed, hopelessly unaware misfit, who works as an alien border guard, is a brilliant comedic foil, that softens some of the series more hard edged moments.The Aliens is, if episode one is anything to go by, off to a good start. I look forward to seeing where this rather zany, quirky series, goes next. Eight out of ten from me.