Star Runners

Another actor with a return visit to Medusa's Face, Todd Jensen.  You may remember him from Bats: Human Harvest.  Something tells me that this will not be the last time that he visits 'the Face'.  Same goes for Velizar Binev.  They might not be household names in the world of trilogies or prequels, but in the B movie circle, they are probably well known.

 

In this yawner, two guys avoid going to jail by performing a task for the military of the United Planets.  They get the cargo, which is a girl, and take a transport to get back to the space fleet of the military.  Why they didn't just take their own ship, I don't know.  Seems like that would have been the better solution.  But they didn't, and the transport that they are on is in danger of being hijacked.  After a small skirmish and crash landing, everyone lands on a planet that has these large space termites.

 

After battling the space termites and learning that the cargo girl is some sort of super human, they get off the planet and deal with the military fleet.  It's all explained at the end about how the regular humans needed to kill off the super humans.  Something about keeping the peace.  I forget.  And you will too.

 

The digital space termites are terrible.  There is little to no action.  And of course they have the seizure cam when fighting the termites.  I really don't see the need to have the camera put on a trampoline when filming action sequences.

 

In short, skip this movie.

 

I give this movie 0 out of 5 plasma pistols.

Alien Apocalypse

Aliens have come to Earth to loot the planet of trees.  They are like giant, space termites.  But these termites also eat human heads and fingers.

 

In Oregon, the "mites" have a sawmill, just outside of Portland, that has several human slaves.  If the slaves escape, the bounty hunters corral them up and return them to the camp.  As a punishment for fleeing, they get a finger removed.  The slaves have to get the lumber ready for transport back to the home planet of the "mites", where it is being sold for food.

 

A team of four people have returned from a 40 mission to launch a space probe.  They have been in cryogenic sleep and did not know about the alien invasion.  Why did they have to be in cryogenic sleep, I don't know.  All I know is that they came hurling back to Earth from space and are about to become slaves themselves.

 

Bruce Campbell plays Dr. Ivan.  He and his love interest, Kelly, are able to break out of the sawmill and make it to Freedom Valley.  The ex-slaves of Freedom Valley do not want to fight.  They just want to co-exist with nature.  Sounds like an old hippie commune to me.  But, they all believe that the president is building a resistance army to fight the aliens.  This is far from the truth.  In fact, the president is tucked away with several other members of congress, just watching the days go by.

 

Dr. Ivan heads up a small band of people and they storm the sawmill.  It's one of the funniest parts of the movie.  Several shots are reused, but you see someone using a sword or shooting an arrow.  The next thing you see are body parts flying about or aliens getting arrows to the eye.  It's comical for sure.

 

There is not much to watch in this film other than Bruce Campbell.  It's no Army of Darkness, but he does a good job delivering the lines and fighting the aliens.

 

I give this movie 1 out of 5 alien termites.