PREDATOR VS. AVATAR
This is an Asylum film (not the one with Will Smith) which incorporates several other films or film pieces. There is a twist 10 minutes from the end which you figure out 10 minutes from the beginning, and I am going to great lengths (ugh!) not to reveal it Scooby-doo, although for most Sc-Fi fans if you know there is a twist, you know the twist. Sorry.
Earth is under attack by aliens. A large ship, the Albert Einstein (AE) manages to escape with a handful of people who go into cryo-sleep. The next thing we know they are on a pod, crash landing on a planet. This planet contains a race of invisible hunters called "Chameleons." There are locals and survivors from another space craft. Our group of hardy explorers are aided by Lea (Bali Rodriguez) because Pocahontas would be too obvious. There is also an android called TIM (Gray Hawks) who acts like he came from "Next Generation." Yes, "There are some who call me... Tim."
The goal of our group is to find a craft that...
Yep, it's a 4-star Asylum film
AE is an obvious mockbuster of After Earth, but so thoroughly surpasses it that only the presence of Will Smith in the genuine article gives away the copy. That's not to say it's great- the effects are mediocre, anyone will see the twist ending coming from a mile away, and the middle lacks punch, but compared to the Asylum's usual fair, it's a well-shot, well-edited, totally passable film I would have no problem watching again.
These direct-to-video sci-fi films tend to follow a pretty predictable formula, so I'll break this review down into its constituent parts:
Lone Token Celebrity:
Adrian Paul. He used to be Duncan Macleud of Highlander: The Series fame, then he was a spokesman for lingerie companies for a while, and now he has to be content with banging supermodels and making cheapo sci fi movies whenever his Maserati needs a new timing belt. Poor guy.
Lesson About Man's Hubris:
None really. Fleeing earth for distant worlds after an...
About what I expected
I knew going into this movie it would be a B movie, and it was exactly that. Its a cross between avatar, predator, and planet of the apes.
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