If you're about to embark on filming what you simply have to know is going to be an awful movie, you can do a few things right. It should be campy, it should be littered with horrid special effects, and if you really know what you're doing, you get Bruce Campbell. That's about the only saving grace to Alien Apocalypse, a movie that at least tried a little bit to be entertaining unlike some of the other dredge Sci-Fi has cooked up recently.
Four astronauts return to Earth after a 40-year long voyage. They land on the planet to find it decimated and now taken over by aliens. The aliens have come to Earth to collect wood, which they then sell to their home planet as it is treated like gold. Humans are enslaved to harvest it, but the returning astronaut Dr. Ivan Wood (Campbell) isn't about to put up with it. With a rag-tag group of people, he begins a fight to reclaim the planet by force and hopefully restore the human way.
At the very least, the movie knows just how bad it is. There's not a single moment where things are to be seriously. There are a plethora of running jokes and the aliens are the prototypical "little green men." Just because it treats it all like camp doesn't exactly mean you'll have a good time however.
Alongside Bruce Campbell is Renee O'Connor of Xena fame. The director here is Josh Becker who directed an episode of the cult classic TV show and did some sound work on The Evil Dead. It seems like all Becker wanted to do is reunite himself with a couple of actors and throw them in the most slap dash movie possible (he even uses a few Sam Raimi style quick-cuts just because he could apparently).
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1 - Scott Pepper
Matt, this post has been syndicated at the Advance.net family of sites, including sites such as the Cleveland.com TV weblog.