Good effects and action, but recycled story and somewhat rushed.

Rating: 6/10 (22 August 2010)

I honestly didn't have much of an intention to watch this, but my brother forced me into it, and I went ahead and saw it. It was your typical average action film, explosions, gun fights, and gore up the butt. Although it does include a few different things, its a basic system that I've already seen over and over. Not that I didn't like it, but its the same repetitive action that has been done already.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and a team of mercenaries set out in the jungles of Guatemala to investigate a group of missing mercenaries, along with taking out a campsite of Guerrillas. But their mission becomes a survival mission when they become the prey of an evil creature from space, which has the ability to camouflage itself.
You can count on this film for giving you good action and explosions, but what you can't count on this film for is freshly made ideas for the story that you've never heard of before. It starts right away, and gets into the conflict right away. The film isn't long enough to make any stops. It just keeps going on.
The film is quite gory for an eighties film, but it just makes it into another one of those shocker films that tries to shock you as much as possible. Don't get me wrong, it is quite graphic, and it pulls it off most of the time. But the film's main problem is not having enough time to stop, or some kind of different idea other than constant running and action. No expectations, just a little more different than other action films.