Taking Earth is a 2017 movie with yet another alien invasion story. It's sure a popular theme. Seems you can't swing a womp rat without hitting another invading alien. It's a South African film, with a $250K budget, that was directed by Grant Humphreys, he wrote the screenplay with Michael Harrison and Grant Knight. The invading aliens aren't at all interested in Earth or the human race. They want one young man, he's been hiding on Earth for the last 7 years. Now the human race is going to get wiped out because of that young man. What dicks these aliens are! The young man does his best to help the humans from being exterminated and he succeeds. Yay! Still, not a very good movie, better than a college film production, but not too much. The actors are of mixed quality but pretty straight up white. I was surprised to only see one black guy in a fairly large role and one black lady in a smaller part. Odd for a movie made in and around Joburg. There's a lot of running about and talking. That's one of the plus double good things about your alien invasion movie, lots of outdoor shooting, often with no actors. Sadly, the nice outdoor scenes and such aren't shot that well, the images are rather dull and lackluster. Perhaps they only shot on overcast days. In the end it falls down, impaled by the script, and it can't get up. I wouldn't need to watch it again. As a positive I did like the robot guys and some of the space ships.
Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter is another 2017 SF movie. Neil Johnson is the writer and director. It's the future and the humans are under attack from the AI's they built. It isn't very interesting. Yak, chase, shoot, repeat. Not much else going on. The movie scores a 5 and I gave it, what I thought was, a generous 3. The movie's user ratings are skewed with 47.3%, or 569 of the 1204 votes, a 10. It has 307 1s which I assume is people trying to correct the imbalance. If you take everything that's left, half the votes are a 2, a 3, or a 4. No wonder I hate people. They sure suck.
Primer is a 2004 time travel film by Shane Carruth. It's mostly a couple of guys talking and talking and talking and talking and talking. It makes 77 minutes seem like all of time. I was bored out of my mind.
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