Product: Alien Lockdown
Rating: 4.0
Michelle Goh + spandex = fun...
OKay, so I bought this DVD only because I wanted an excuse to watch Michelle Goh run around in a tight-fitting spandex suit for a couple of hours! But the film is actually not that bad. Nothing original with the plot, but the graphics were pretty good inside the facility. Mostly because they kept it very simple with green lighting (to reflect the alien theme no doubt) and you rarely see anything other than concrete slabs and walls. Plus, they didn't use one of those fake or digitally produced monsters, but rather had a guy in an alien suit play the part. I thought this aspect worked really well. There is an intro scene which is shot on location somewhere (don't know where it was) when they are introducing how the alien "technology" is found, so that also added to the realism of it. Where they fell glaringly short is towards the end when the survivors are air lifted out of the complex in a very obviously fake helicopter and the outside of the complex was very obviously a model set. Plus they set the fake-looking helicopter against a background of some video from some place in the Alps or Himalayas or something. So that part was bad and really what I expected from most of the film. But like I said, most of it shot indoors (on a very simple set no doubt) actually looked pretty decent. The acting was not bad either. The plot is something you've seen no doubt in many other alien-type of movies where a team in sent in to destroy the facility and the alien.You've have to go into this kind of movie with low expectations and expecting a B-movie, and then you might find it enjoyable. Michelle Goh is in her prime here, so that's nice too!FINAL GRADE: B