Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

kai ringler I just love anything James Caan is in so I decided to give this one a try, and boy was I glad that I did. Mandy Pantikin also did a nice job on the film,, and i'm a big Terrence Stamp fan so I enjoyed the acting,, the premise was excellent to,,, I graduated the year this came out but never got around to seeing it till much later., so the story goes that Caan has to take on a partner,, well he's sorta an alien and Caan resents that and has arguments and bickers with him constantly but eventually the learn to work together get along and eventually become good friends, they go up against some bad guy aliens who wish to do harm to the human race as they are selling some kind of drug that has deadly outcomes for those that inject it,, I think that this movie was ahead of it's time.. a great movie for sci fi lover's and James Caan as well. I was not disappointed whatsoever.

richieandsam ALIEN NATIONThis film was fun. It was basically a normal police movie. There was no need to have any aliens in it at all, but it made a nice little twist.Aliens have come to Earth and the live with us... they have jobs and are treated in most cases as normal people. But there are some people who do not like them, who do not trust them... and Detective Sergeant Matthew Sykes is one of those people. He has always distrusted the Newcomers. When his partner gets killed by a Newcomer, he volunteers to parter with one to help find the murderer.It is a movie about relationships. 2 partners who do not like each other having to work together and trust each other. The relationship is kind of like Riggs & Murtaugh in the original Lethal Weapon movie. They did not get on, but by the end of the film they were best friends and there for each other.The aliens were pretty good even though the make up was terrible. You can't hurt them by kicking them between the legs... their delicate area is under their arms near the armpit. Also, they burn in salt water. It can kill them.Like I said before, the make up was bad. You could see they were wearing rubber egg heads. and the noses looked like they could fall off at any point.The film stars James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp and Kevyn Major Howard. The acting was OK. Not spectacular, but it was alright.It was just a good police chase/detective film. It was fun but not really full of surprises.I will give this film 7 out of 10.I love sci-fi films and action police films... it was my kind of movie.For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

alienworlds I give this one an eight because I think some good creative thought went into its making. It is not an overly heavy handed movie-the characterizations are realistic and the aliens are believable and interesting. I was impressed by the idea of a group of aliens attempting to blend themselves into human society in this film, with some fairly hilarious results. Many film makers have dealt with the same subject matter and not done it so effectively. I did see the television show it had as a spin off, but I didn't think the television show was all that good. Using James Caan to play a hard nosed detective was a good idea, and I think the film is probably better off for it.I have heard people criticize using him in the film. I think that is the whole point of it, the contrast between the human and the alien personality. The opening scene in the film is great. A treat for SF fans, at least, it was for me. I think newer film makers tend to shy away from trying to make originals like this movie, perhaps going for something that avoids the whole concept of alien societies. I wonder why. Maybe it is just too much work for most of them. Films like this are few and far between.

classicsoncall I remember how fascinated I was with the concepts explored in this picture back in the day - the idea of curdled milk as refreshing, and sea water corrosive to an alien race. The idea of extra-terrestrials living and working among us, assimilating into society while confronting a similar type of racism that all 'different' cultures experience when settling in a new environment. It's what gives focus to the relationship between detective Matt Sykes (James Caan) and his 'Newcomer' partner Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin). That's a great speech by Sam/George where he laments how humans have failed to live up to the same potential they have offered the aliens. Makes you think about how we really haven't improved all that much as a society over the past twenty years.Watching the film the other night, I was struck by how much blatant product placement went on in the picture - subtle ads for stuff like Tasters Choice Coffee, Smirnoff Vodka, and repeated images of those Bartles and James guys before they went down in a hail of gunfire during the convenience store robbery. There was even a marquee for Rambo III playing in theaters at the time; I wonder why they offered free time to a competitor.I was probably more intrigued by the memory of this picture than the film itself; as I watched it the other night I thought that the second half moved rather slowly. I'm having a hard time understanding why the villain Harcourt (Terence Stamp) went to such great lengths to protect his investment in Jabluka, when for all intents and purposes, the aliens could get it anywhere. I mean really, today you can buy Tide in a dozen assorted flavors.And speaking of tides, it was rather noble to see George risk his life to save a buddy by hanging out over an ocean full of battery acid. You don't have to be an alien to know that that was a wild and crazy thing to do. I thought about how all that salt spray should have been hitting George in the face, but then you wouldn't have had the dramatic save for this buddy movie to end on a high note.