D-Day77

Let me start with the positives, visually great, set design great, the tech looked and sounded like it was set between alien and aliens . The actor playing Andy was fantastic. There was a clever opening linked to Alien. An awesome zero g moment and some great facehugger moments.

Now for the down side. Characters and story were dull, there was an attempt to pay homage via dialogue but it didn't work , it was cringe worthy.

There seemed to be an echo of resurrection, too many similarities and resurrection (imo) was naff. A link to Prometheus which I didn't like and the face huggers in this film were created by a crap method and I hated it. The ending was also unoriginal and left me feeling disappointed .

Stumbling across this on Amazon prime video I thought i would give it a watch as Thomas Jane is usually ok and I once worked with Jess laudin many years ago at a fight event. The film had A strong start but after the first ten minutes or so it suddenly went down hill and continued to do so rapidly. At the 1 hr mark I gave up watching and found something better to do.

Poor writing , poor character development. I was confused at John malcovich 'acting' as if he may have had a stroke, is he ok, if it was an acting choice then it was definitely a bad one.

Villains were lame and unbelievable, the storyline forgettable Flawed in many areas , I doubt it got better ,

I turned this off at the 1hr 2 minute mark.

Why, because Coners poor attempt at acting ruined what was already a poor film.

Let me start with the positives, Jake does well, a troubled character that had potential ( didn't see all the film so can't judge fully) his first fight outside the roadhouse, brilliant , extremely well choreographed and made me think, ok this film has potential, then it went downhill rapidly. Sadly this film is a poor attempt at a remake, revamp or reimagination of a great albeit dated classic.

No one can replace Swayze but I gave Jake a chance and he may well be the only good thing about this.

Everyone else, you need to enroll in more acting lessons.

The villain, Ben Brandt, just terrible acting but not compared to coner, with his ott stupid smug grin showing off his pearly whites, the dude can throw a punch obviously but jeez, why try acting, its not for him. Had his character been mute I probably would have sat through the other crap actors but he was just so bad!

If the story was going to follow the original I'd took too long to get to the point.

I gave it a chance but nope, my advice, just watch the trailer then go and watch Swayze's far superior classic.