You won't be disappointed!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It's a good thing the filmmakers didn't make this a real serious film. It is clearly low budget and the acting is really really bad. There are touches of imagination, and that is appreciated but the special effects are only average. The premise itself sound interesting, astronauts return to earth after a forty year mission, and earth has been taken over by wood craving aliens. Then it struck me, what outer space mission isn't on daily contact with earth? So it makes the whole story invalid. How could they be so surprised? Although the humor is welcome, it's also out of place. The score becomes monotonous after awhile. It was just to stupid to be enjoyed.

This movie is great. Read that again. No, I am not joking. The premise of the movie is that alien ant-like creatures have enslaved earth in order to get as much wood as they can. Bruce comes along to save the day. This movie is obviously a comedy. It's not meant to be taken seriously. The actors know this, the directory knows this, everyone knows this, except maybe the fans that plague IMDb. I will now try to explain my reasoning.1. Everyone wears fake beards. The Halloween kind. 2. Piles of wood explode. Like oil barrels. 3. This quote:Dr. Ivan Hood: Hey, scumbag! You forgot something. Bounty Hunter #3: What? (he is shot by a crossbow and drops down to his knees) Bounty Hunter #3: Ungh... you said you're a doctor. You're supposed to heal people. Dr. Ivan Hood: I am. Your stupidity is terminal. And now you're cured.The whole thing is a campy sci-fi, monster movie. It's a fun movie. Don't take it seriously. Oh and enjoy.

Well, I'have to confess : My DVD collection is pretty complete with "classics" and I'm bound to look for very bad Sci-fi or horror B-movies for some late-night entertainment.Alien apocalypse is certainly fitting in this "niche", and without the presence of Bruce Campbell, I would certainly have overlooked it.The movie can be summarized like this : Simple and over-predictable plot, taking inspiration from recent movies like Independence day, battlefield earth (Yikes!), star-gate,...Le FX are, er, limited to bad CGI aliens (with bad animation, looking like they were coming from a 1990-era CD-Rom game). There are occasional explosions, which is obviously the same filmed from different angles.The acting is very bad. More like a college end-of-year revue. And it's especially visible when some actors interact with the handful of "profesionnals" actors (like Campbell). One fine example is the young "warrior" woman whom you can hardly hear during dialogs.Costumes are cheap and really stupids (White Space suit/uniform complete with Shoes with gaiter closed by long shoelaces anyone ?) and most of the cast are wearing fake beards and wigs obviously bought from a prank store (sometimes the hairs are not from the same color than the beard).Decors and locations are limited to woods or desert (looking more like an abandoned quarry. You can spot wheels threads here and there).And the more fun are the plot holes : Every one has forgotten everything about civilization in twenty years (but most of the cast is aged 30-40years old). Superior aliens that have subdued the whole planet in a snap are living in a wooden shed and have no trace of spaceship or computers or advanced means of communication. Moreover they seems to be killed very easily although everyone seems convinced that they are immortals. The "resistance" is killing a lot of aliens and guards during the uprising, but they stick with the bows, ignoring the rifles and "laser rods" left by the dead aliens.And finally, they spent most of the movie looking for the "president" which is allegedly alive and forming an army (a kind of legend, giving hope to the captive). It appears that the president is living in a garden shed, less than one day of walk from the saw mill, and still has the whole congress with him (still wearing suits 20years after the attack although the "captives" are wearing animal furs). Very, very funny... It was worth the 2euros I paid for it (found in a bargain bin in a department store)

'Tis true that this one has Grade-Z effects, a dreadful script, and some of the worst acting imaginable, but I kind of suspect that the makers knew this, and a great deal of the cheesiness was intentional. If you love shockingly bad sci-fi movies, then there is a whole heap to enjoy about Alien Apocalypse. It's not a 'great' movie (and I'm not about to give it a ridiculously high rating), but it is a fun film that should ideally be enjoyed with like-minded friends (and plenty of alcohol).An astronaut/doctor, Ivan Hood (Bruce Campbell), returns to Earth after 40 years in suspended animation, to find that the planet has been overrun by insectoid aliens who are stripping the planet of its wood (which they eat). Together with fellow astronaut, Kelly (Renée O'Connor), and a small group of plucky slaves, he leads a revolt against the alien invaders.With dreadful support from a multitude of badly bewigged Eastern Europeans (and a leggy babe in a fur bikini), Campbell mugs his way through the lousy script with his usual aplomb. The special effects are rather poor, with the aliens being a mixture of animatronics and rather cheap looking CGI. However, there is a smatter of well conceived gore to compensate a little: the bugs chew off the heads of troublemakers and devour the severed fingers of those who attempt to escape. There are also several juicy shots of the aliens being killed, with green goop squirting from the wounds.Unpretentious, very silly and worth a go if trash sci-fi is your thang!