Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Better Late Then Never

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

"They Are Among Us" is a spectacularly decent killer alien film.**SPOILERS**Living in a small town, friends Daniel, (Michael DiLallo) Devon, (Lacey Beeman) and Harlan, (Michael Maples) are growing concerned over the growing number of strange disappearances their friends are experiencing. Thinking that there's something his parents Hugh, (Bruce Boxleitner) and Colette, (Nana Visitor) are hiding, they find a strange medallion hidden away, and after a few attempts at tracking down the truth, stumble across a plot from a group of alien insects. Investigating more with Sammy Finley, (Alison Eastwood) they find that it is a parasitic race of creatures that need human collagen to survive, and is being held down in a conspiracy by Ralph Parks, (Diedre Madsen) June Jarrett, (Hunter Tylo) and Dr. Norbert, (Corbin Bernsen) prominent members of town and race to stop them from unleashing their deadly plans.The Good News: This here was a somewhat decent killer alien film. That the aliens themselves, in the few scenes of them seen, are really nice and one of those points. They're tall, lanky, scaly and dripping with claws and fangs, together with their domestic look and demeanor make for a really great creature. Along with the rare on-screen appearances of them in total, it leads to some really impressive scenes with them. They are most apparent in the finale, which is really fun. From the prevalent windstorm to the creepy locations, which set-up a nice atmosphere, this one has a really creepy air at times. The beginning in the film, where there's a really nice mystery built-up, also works for this. From the mystery about the missing teenagers to the evidence of the parents being involved in something, there's some pretty decent scenes from these parts as it's all done to make the other parts feel that much creepier since it's backed behind the other parts in the film setting it up nicely. There's also a couple of really well-done scenes which are really great. The party scene at the house is awesome, taking the simple concept it presents in theory and offering a superb twist when, down in the basement with the strobe-light in full effect, it offers up the sacrifice scene and is even better for it. There's also all the good stuff from being in the underground caves, which always produce some good scenes. Anytime down in there is really good and satisfies with their inclusion. The last good thing about this one was the acceptably-sized body count, which had some okay deaths if not anything new or standout-ish, but the quantity here takes precedence. These here are the film's good points.The Bad News: There wasn't a huge flaw to this one, though there is a lot of damage caused by it. The biggest issue is that the film has nearly way too much plot going on, as, entertaining as the mystery is, throws in way too many parts and ideas into it that there's simply overkill at a point. There's the fact that the aliens are involved with the crop-circles and medallion as well as the effects of the collagen works well, since they are presented in logic, accurate and believable manners, and this would've been well and good except for the fact that there's the inclusion of the parasite angle. They were terrible enough, but rather than doing anything good about it, this one has the effects of the parasite go indirect opposition of the alien angle. It's almost as though it was thrown in merely to add a twist to the film and make the creatures feel threatening. It all just feels tacked on instead, and then comes the big sequence where it's supposedly mushed together with the other elements but catastrophically fails, making the whole thing more complicating and headache-inducing than necessary. This also brings up the film's other real flaw, the slow pace at the beginning since its got the different stories woven together. Nothing really happens until the end, and the set-up for this is a little lacking. These here really hurt the film.The Final Verdict: This here wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that great either and had a few problems with it that really lower this one. Really only give this entry a chance if you're into these kinds of creature features or are in the mood for cheesy, harmless fun, otherwise heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and a clothed sex scene

Words fail me.And that isn't common.Done properly this could have been great, funny spoof B-movie sci-fi, but sadly, it was not to be. Rarely in the field of drama have so many competent actors struggled so vainly with such a dogs-breakfast of a script. I can only endorse the previous reviewer's comments - go clean the bathroom. In fact do ANYTHING except watch this film.Positives: Lucy Beeman's nose. Negatives: Everything else.Most apposite line: "This isn't going anywhere".If only every plastic surgeon could meet with such a fate.

Just finished watching its on the Sci-Fi Channel, and its much better than I expected from a TV movie. It was especially good to see Bruce Boxleitner and Nana Visitor working together as they are from my two favorite shows of all times, Babylon 5 and Star Trek:DS9 respectively. Allison Eastwood brings one word to mind, HOT! She can hold me at gunpoint anytime. I don't know who he is but that guy who played Uncle Bob really creeped me out, He kind of reminds me of this weirdo who walks around my campus handing out bibles. I also liked the "Guardian" alien, whoever did the special effects did a great job on that thing. Now I don't know his name but the actor who played the mechanic gave a decent performance as well. Overall I highly recommend it, it has an Invasion of the body snatchers, meets they live feel to it.

I am very tolerant of really bad sci/fi and horror movies - I've been watching them since I was 4 or 5, so I've seen some really bad stuff, but I deal with it. I've even watched a lot of SciFi Channel movies so I know not to expect much - a usually promising movie that has no ending to speak of. Hope springs eternal, I guess - or the triumph of hope over experience, as they say. Unfortunately, this is a dog right from the beginning and I knew it, but like a moth to the flame, I kept thinking something, anything, interesting would happen. It doesn't. All of the actors give a decent performance - given the script, I don't know how they all kept straight faces. It has something to do with collagen-starved worm parasite creatures who are slowly taking over the human race, one body at a time. There's an evil plastic surgeon who collaborates with the enemy by giving them the outward appearance of humans...don't worry, he gets what's coming to him. The slug people themselves don't really know where they came from, they think they might have thumbed a ride on a meteor that landed on earth, but...somehow they know about the members of slug royalty among them - the slug princess has managed to breed with a human being who knows that she's the worm queen and loves her for her self...oh, must I go on? Please, I implore you, do not waste 2 hours of your life watching this...anything would be better...think of the worst, least enjoyable way you can spend two hours...it would be better than this.