SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

George Taylor In WW2, a group of lost US Soldiers, led by the great Tim Thompson, finds a lost alien. A shapeshifter, the creature is also sought by the Nazis. A fun movie with a lot of goofs in it, it's still worth watching.

Son-of-WRA I can understand the appeal. I grew up in the 60's watching every 1940's to 1950's b-movie I could on Saturday nights. I love science fiction. I even like bad movies. But this one just doesn't get it right.I found nothing in the story that made ANY bit of sense. It's like the horror movies of that time (1980's) where stupid characters make stupid decisions despite the dangers around them - all without the slightest nod to any trepidation or common sense.1) You don't leave a trail of American-brand cigarette butts all over the Italian countryside with Germans on your heels.2) If your supplies are limited, your fallen countrymen wouldn't mind if you took their spare ammo.3) When you're holed up in some barn, you don't make a fire which can be seen through a gate that looks like a bunch of third-graders put it together.4) When you're on the run and hiding from Germans in the area, you don't shout to each other.5) When you're the Germans and the Americans have their backs to you, don't wait until they are able to turn around and use their recently-acquired alien weapons on you.I'd also like to know why an alien civilization wouldn't think of their own type of grating rather than resorting to a design that resembles Terran chicken-wire.Even in my giddiest of moods I would find this movie difficult to watch because of the dreadful lack of regard for common sense in every scene.

FlashCallahan When their platoon is attacked only The Sarge, Joey, Mittens, Dolan remain.When they're lost behind enemy lines, Joey thinks he's seen alien in the clear blue moonlight.The next morning, Joey has been unable to convince his friends of what he saw.Mittens and Dolan (thinking the creature was actually a deer) go on a hunt to find food, but they find a seemingly abandoned Nazi camp containing images and studies of a mysterious space craft in the deep forest, sadly they're captured before warning the others.As this happens, The Sarge and Joey discover the UFO themselves along with an alien creature following their every move...Any film with Dollman in is worth watching, but this takes a while to get going. Having heard it was a cult classic in some circles, I was getting ready for some camp lines and cheesy set pieces.For the first half an hour, it's an all out war movie, with the same action scenes and characters you would expect from any carbon copy war movie. It's comical in this first sequence though because Th e Sargein one instance shoots a platoon of Germans and they all fall over at the same time.Just when tedium sets in, it goes from generic to plain bizarre. The crew befriend the six foot cigarette eating grasshopper, and before you know it, extras from space 1999 arrive on the scene with cool ray guns and even cooler translators.The performances are what you would expect from a film like this, and you can forgive the dire editing and effects. Thomerson is as gruff as usual and the final sequence will have you laughing at the unintentional hilarity.

Scott_Mercer Or why didn't someone with a larger film budget? Because this whole movie is a lot of fun. I just wish the special effects had been a little better. I'm sure that crashed spaceship mockup did cost them a pretty penny though.The cheesiness of the low budget, reflected in the alien costumes and minimal military paraphenelia is about the only bad thing I found in this genre effort. Badmouthing this film is like kicking a friendly puppy. The writing was great, the acting was much better than it had any right to be, and even the directing was absolutely appropriate.Yes, it is not realistic in the slightest. Yes, it is a version of World War 2 based not on the actual war, but based on other cheap movies about the War. And then it throws crash-landed aliens into the mix. But that just makes it so much more fun.There's a standard low budget WW2 movie setup: ragtag group of GIs is caught behind German lines and has to fight their way out. Luckily, this is in Italy so the Germans are a little ways out on the end of their supply lines as well. We get all the standard war movie clichés: the gruff Sarge who can't die (Tim Thomerson), the comic relief kid from Brooklyn with his pulp magazines, the green Lieutenant just out of training school, the grizzled Corporal who's been through hell and high water with The Sarge (the Tom Sizemore role, here Art LaFleur) and the hard-bitten, cynical reporter/photographer who tags along.Into this "haven't we seen this before a FEW times" setup comes strange goings-on in the form of a crash landed alien spaceship. And that, kids, is where things get interesting and fun. Things just get more ridiculous from there, with a blown-up spaceship, magical alien gizmos that make Rita Hayworth appear, and even a cameo appearance from Der Furher himself, just so one of the heroes can punch him right in the face. That's entertainment.Do check out Zone Troopers, but make sure your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, as they say.