While preparing for a movie shoot, the cast and crew of a film exploring the events of a small-town massacre years ago see the real-life aliens invade their project which alerts a therapist treating the survivor of the first invasion that his warnings were true and team up to stop the creatures.
This was a fine conclusion to the franchise that does have some issues. One of the finer features here is the strong storyline managing to bridge together the events of the entire series for a proper conclusion to the series. Explaining how the previous films fit into the established canon offers a fantastic series of continuity to provide the framework for the series of cheesy and generally setpieces here that are quite fun, ranging from attacks on the community to some fine ambushes on the film crew shooting off in the woods. These are silly enough with the design and use of the creatures offering a fun counterpoint to the action present which all makes the type of content here appropriately cheesy and goofy with the type of feel that the rest of the films featured that helps even further to connect everything together. These factors all manage to provide this one quite a slew of positive points to hold this one up while there are some problems to be had with this one. One of the main drawbacks to the film is the reliance on so much flashback footage from the other films to fill in the storyline that it doesn't leave much room for original content. Retelling the incidents and bringing everything together as a means of closing off the storyline about the invasion and him being the lone survivor does create a full-circle loop but it does so at the expense of everything else here leaving just small chunks for the new storyline to be expanded upon with the federal investigation into the incidents, the scientist studying the specimens and the film-crew shooting the movie retelling. These only serve to enhance some of the cheap and lazy feeling that's present here with the overt cheesiness of the special effects from the puppets to the CGI depictions of the ships in outer space that do add a likable cheesy quality to things if you're a fan of this approach.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Language.
