After a mysterious extraterrestrial object lands in the mining town of Salena, Arizona, the government dispatches a team of marines to contain the possible threat. Meanwhile, a group of death row inmates ambush their prison bus and take the guards and personnel aboard hostage. Arriving in the seemingly deserted town, they come across the Special Ops captain, the sole survivor of a horrible carnage that's decimated the rest of his unit. Now, with time running out, the group must unite to combat the threat of the savage aliens hunting them in the mine tunnels below, and the peril above from a squad of fighter planes sent to bomb the town to oblivion, in this pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller.
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That might sound a bit too harsh. And the movie tries and is pretty trashy (I can see why someone rated it really high) and funny at times. But overall it does not really entertain as much as it could. It tries to be too serious for its own good. Still (and especially if you consider the German title "... Invasion USA", that kinda spoilers what this incident is about ... or whom it is about), if you have nothing else to do ...Then again there are better movies out there. Even the Devils Playground and other movies have more "value", but of course also a higher budget. Only watch if you can deal with the low budget restrictions and other flaws!
B-movies I can understand, but why to people made stuff as low as Alien Invasion Arizona? Definitely Z-grade material, I doubt if the makers even went to film school, or the cast to acting school. Films like this are probably made just for fun. This is what you get when you round up a dozen friends, rent a truck of gear with finance from some 'ma and pa' operation, get a locations permit, and maybe a hundred dollars worth of props/costumes from the halloween store. That is pretty cheap, and unless you know what you are doing, the result is gonna be pretty darn cheap.A group of prisoners high jack the transport taking them to jail. They march their 'rookie cop' hostages to the nearest town, which is supposed to be a rendezvous. They find the place to be totally deserted, and next they find out why. a swarm of reptilian like aliens, have worked their way from under ground to the surface and have eaten every body. Now their next meal has walked into town.The creatures in this film are the most rubbery I think I've seen since Roger Corman's Carnosaur trilogy. They were clearly designed based on the one in Ridley Scott's masterpiece, but they are not even a hundredth of the way to being as intimidating as that one. There is no reason to see this film, which is why it has gotten no release. Long may it be that way.
If I was still 5 I might find it scary. It is (I guess) a low budget film. The acting is not good, but could be worse - the filming and special effect is awful. The story line is thin and not worth to dwell on. Too much time is used on boring shouting scenes. The chases or fight with aliens, remind me of kids fighting with scary masks on. Some gore with blood and body parts - would scare a 5 year old kid I guess. Apparently scare the crap out of some of the persons in the film.It is far from reaching anything like the film Tremors.This turns out to be an "incident" and we see alien ships nearby earth. It make you wonder if any will make a sequel...
I've seen worse and I've seen better. But overall, this is a nice little low-budget Sci Fi movie.It is set in a fictional town called Salena in Arizona, which is the real life town of Superior, AZ. The plot is pretty basic and predictable, about a group of people trying to escape from mysterious aliens. There is a lot of blood and screaming and some cheap scares. The characters are not particularly likable, but what can you expect since they are mainly escaped prisoners? Since I have a house in Superior, it was especially enjoyable to me to see the town. But, I was disappointed that the film failed to capture the beauty of the town.Overall, I give this a 6 out of 10. I enjoyed it but wished it would have been better scripted and acted.