Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Jabbar Raissani seemed to do everything in this movie produced , visual effects , directed, he even cleaned out the portaloos and more but the one thing he did'not do was make a good movie.I agree with all the reviewers on the last page this movie was dull , really dull and the acting was wooden and stilted and poor old Adrian Paul must have been brought in for 5 minutes just to give it that headline actor - he actually just played a voice on the radio because he was too embarrassed to actually appear in it!What a joke this movie is. The rating is too high , I cannot believe the 7 pages of good reviews - what were they watching? But each to his own but its not my idea of fun. I would rather watch paint dry than sit through this mess again.Where did the $4 million go? Into Adrian Pauls pocket probably!

This movie seems to be really underrated. Many people seem to see everything that's not full of expensive special effects as automatically sub par. Which is a real shame when looking at a movie like outpost 37 (aka: Alien Outpost).Although the acting wasn't always consistently top notch, it was good enough over all to keep me invested in the characters and story. The setting of the story was great. For a change humanity isn't the complete underdog from the get go, this perfectly lends itself to a scenario in which the protagonists get slowly and unexpectedly overwhelmed. I can't think of a single actor in this film which didn't deliver this feeling of a degenerating situation well.Like I said earlier the special effects are a bit sparse (I'm sure due to budget constraints) but the way the movie is set up they really worked around this problem. You get just enough to hook you into the science fiction setting.I really would like to see a sequel with a bigger budget to really show of the sci-fi elements and strengthen the setting. A personal preference of mine would be to use a lot of practical effects, although the makers of his movie already use some very good ones from time to time.Al in all I think this movie is definitely worth a watch, I would give it a 7/10 but to counter some of the naysayers (and because I really want a sequel I'll make it an 8/10 instead.

I don't what movie the latest reviews were watching or maybe they were trying up the review ratings but this movie was beyond terrible. It almost looked like some of the actors knew they were in a terrible movie and were trying to keep themselves from laughing during certain scenes.All the camera shaking and obvious military drama felt like every cliché in the book for this type of movie not to mention hardly anything Sci-Fi about it. If you're considering watching this movie, do yourself a favor and save yourself a couple hours and do something constructive like clean your house instead. You'll feel better about yourself afterwards.

I am so glad I watched this in spite of the low rating. I almost never watch anything below a 6 but there were so many good reviews that I took a chance. I think the reason for the low rating is that the bad reviewers did not even watch the whole movie, skipping through much of it. They missed many essential plot points, like the reason the locals were hostile. Or they judge a film primarily by how much of a Hollywood blockbuster it is, or demand state of the art special effects. I judge a film by character development, story, what is done with the budget they do have, acting, etc. And I like Indie films and sci-fi, and high end sci-fi at that. I don't think this was a "B movie" as many have called it; don't get that. The story is very plausible, scientifically, since we have sent out greetings to the universe as if every advanced civilization will be a better version than we are (granted, at this point, it would be a long shot if anyone found our greetings or spacecraft yet, but I think it will happen sometime in the far future). I love documentary style movies, which this is, and although I have never been in the military, from what I know, it seemed pretty accurate to me (as accurate as any movie is about anything). They did a good job on the sfx, dealing with the low budget well, and possibly causing the time period to be after the invasion, rather than during, which required less sfx. Many reviewers have criticized it for lack of more modern military hardware by 2033, but that is only 18 yrs hence, which is like comparing 1998 to 2015, so not like the distant future or anything. It would be very difficult to make great leaps in weapons while the whole world and its infrastructure/economy is being attacked, and any movement in that area would be specific to just a few vital efforts, as the movie shows. Plus I think lessons have been learned, like 2001 was not like the movie, by any stretch of the imagination (and esp the movie 2010), nor was 1984 anything like the book (thank goodness) and they were set at least twice as far in the future as this movie. You have to be careful when imagining the future. An opening for a sequel might have been there (or just part of the ending, which was good), and I hope there is one, we need more good sci-fi, IMO. This is obviously a talented director who did a very commendable job with few resources, and good casting using the huge pool of good non-stars out there. Very good cinematography also. It is a good watch if you care more about an overall good movie than essentially watching a video game with big budget sfx with big name not-so-great actors.