Invasion Earth : Complete Uncut Version : Mini Series Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good, thoughtful and intelligent miniseries. What blunts it's effect is two things in my mind. One, Fred Ward is a horrible actor. He is SO wooden and cliched in this that it is pathetic. His poor performance could be blamed on the writers and director if it wasn't for the fact that the other actors give reasonable performances with the material. Ward is just plain bad. Second, I felt that the development of the relationship between the male and female leads was pretty sketchy and contrived. There was absolutely no chemistry between the two and the idea that they were attracted to each other sexually just does not come across. I also thought that the writers took the Echoes out of the storyline too quickly. The series does have it's moments though and they keep the actual physical form of the evil ND's ambiguous all the wat through.

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This ambitious miniseries, a coproduction between the BBC and the American cable entity the Sci-Fi Channel, is an unusually intelligent and demanding example of the genre. The story begins when a cocky pilot shoots down a UFO inside British air space, but the following revelations only hint at the scope of the predicament. A few soldiers and civilians, led by an American general with the NATO forces (Fred Ward), find themselves in the middle of an intergalactic war and discover they are the next target of a mysterious civilization that has already conquered most of the galaxy. Working with a limited budget, the filmmakers concentrate on creating a palpable sense of fear of the unknown while punctuating the story with sparse but startling effects: dimensional portals that open out of nowhere, a hellish otherworldly land where prisoners appear to be digested in a monstrous stomach, our first and only glimpse of the demonic-looking enemy as it lays waste to an Earth laboratory. These eerie moments only intensify the moody dread that permeates the series. Though an unconvincing romantic subplot occasionally slows the pace, the consistently smart writing and dense, delirious plotting makes this unusual epic compelling viewing right through to its jaw-dropping conclusion.

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