Product: Alien Lockdown
Rating: 2.0
Monster eats everyone in it's path at a secret base, not very original but it works.
Alien Lockdown has a plot which is about as formulaic as it gets. The movie is about a secret research base who uses an alien artifact to genetically design a monster they hope to eventually control and make into a weapon. Off course the monster escapes and begins killing everything that moves and the army send in some black ops soldiers to deal with the problem. There is even some corrupt army officers and a mad scientist with a God complex. Now this is the plot to who know how many movies and it is the plot to Alien Lockdown, there is nothing new here, they have just taken the cookie cutter script of monster causes havoc at remote research base, given it a touch of personalization and run with it.I think this is the main problem with Alien Lockdown, not the cookie cutter plot, that is okey you get what you expect with this movie, the problem is that there is just no effort put into any part of this film. The acting is lackluster it seams like the actors where just plain bored, the costumes, sounds, music everything just feels like they did what they had to so that the movie would be watchable, but no one have really had any passion for the movie. Now I do not think about things like the characters running past the same staircase twice when trying to escape the monster, the movie is not a big budget production if they have to cut a few corners and try to make their set look bigger than it really is I am fine with that, I am more thinking about how everything is acceptable but not beyond that. The movie makers wanted to just press out a movie which would earn them a few bucks and be watchable enough so folks would buy it and as long as it passed that line they just did not give a *beep* about anything else.Like I said Alien Lockdown is watchable. Yes there is plot holes big enough for the monster to crawl though but all in all the story works, it have a bit of suspense, it is by no means a masterpiece but at least for me Alien Lockdown kept me entertained for the about one and a half hours it lasted. I do not recommend getting this movie at full price, but if you manage to find it cheap like I did then I think it is worth it. Yes Alien Lockdown is mediocre, formulaic trash but on an evening when you are just bored and want to see a monster rip soldiers to shreds it might just do the trick.One thing positive about the movie I want to mention is the monster, first off all I like to see a creature made with prosthetics instead of computer graphics, and also the genetically engineered beastie in this movie actually look pretty good. Yes sure it looks like they have crossed a Xenomorph, a Predator and an alligator but it moves well and I think it is designed pretty well. Now a well designed monster can not save a trashy movie but give credit where credit is due.All in all Alien Lockdown is trash bit it is entertaining trash. It is the kind of movie where just make a big bowl of popcorn, have a pizza on the table and sit with friends and laugh as stereotypical characters get picked off one by one. There are allot of better creature features out there but there is allot of worse ones to.