Invasion Planet Earth

As much as I love science fiction, this movie - rated at 3.3 - is overrated precisely by 3.3. I gave it 1 star just because there is 0 star rating. I don't know where to start: acting is bad, script is even worse, special effects are laughable. I would understand if it was primary school project but commercial movie production? Really?

I was lured in by this 2019 sci-fi movie's rather impressive and interesting cover/poster. And sad to say, then the movie's cover/poster was actually the best thing about the entire movie experience. Yeah, I kid you not.

The storyline told in "Invasion Planet Earth" by writers Simon Cox and Simon Bovey just didn't work out all that well. It felt confusing and shattered, sort of as if director Simon Cox was trying to assemble bits and pieces of various broken storyline fragments and tie it together to make a whole new storyline. It just didn't work, and the movie was a confusing mess of a non-linear experience.

The acting in the movie was actually adequate enough, taking into consideration the premise that the actors and actresses were working under. Granted, the actors and actresses didn't really have much of a coherent storyline or script to work with, and it was showing.

Visually the movie was adequate, not impressive mind you, but adequate. There are many other sci-fi movies out there with far more impressive and visually pleasing special effects. And for me, a sci-fi movie must have spectacular and realistic effects. "Invasion Planet Earth" wasn't really able to brag about having special effects and CGI that will blow you away and leave you breathless.

For me, it was the scramble confusing heap of a storyline that killed the movie. Jumping back and forth between different realities or what not just didn't work for me, especially since the red thread got lost in transition.

Ultimately, "Invasion Planet Earth" is not an impressive sci-fi movie, nor is it a particularly outstanding or memorable one. I managed to get halfway through the ordeal and just gave up given the atrocity that passes as a storyline. And I have absolutely no interest in returning to watch the rest of the movie.

My rating of "Invasion Planet Earth" settles on a generous three out of ten stars.

Still have 20 min left of the movie and can't decide whether to watch to the end or just gouge my eyes out.

Thomas Dunn is having a terrible day fit for a soap opera. Full of cliches, careless editing and continuity errors this is less a film and more of a red headed stepchild of Ed Wood.

We watch the story unfold with special effects so poor, they qualify as neither. Acting is also pretty painful for the most part with performers struggling to overcome a clunky and predictable story and a script that feels like a chainsaw lobotomy.

The value in Invasion Planet Earth is for film students looking to see how never to make a movie.

The story does leave (quite) a bit to be desired and the editing could have been a lot better which started me skipping through the film after about 35 minutes. I tried to pretend I was watching a 70's sci-fi but that didn't help. I understand that some people worked hard to get this movie made and I understand the difficulties they had to overcome and I like the concept of the story but the end result is just not watchable nor believable. Maybe rewrite the script into a book (after some necessary changes to the story)?