Sunday, September 30, 2012

Alien Origin

"The footage is real. The proof is irrefutable."

In an attempt to make some money of the recent Alien hype caused by Prometheus, The Asylum Home Entertainment made a movie showing how their own alien mythos began.
There are a couple of problems with this idea, especially the facts that The Asylum doesn't have an alien mythos of their own, and that there aren't really any aliens in the movie.

The movie takes places in a jungle of sorts (although it's painfully obvious that it's actually not filmed in a jungle, with at least one metal pole sticking out of the ground at one point), possibly somewhere in South America. The location might have been mentioned, if it was I probably just didn't pay attention.
A military team is on some sort of mission in the jungle, with a reporter and a cameraman tagging along documenting the expedition.
Most of the movie is shown through the cameramans point of view, with a The Blair Witch Project kind of shaking camera effect, which is just as annoying in Alien Origin as it was in Blair Witch. They even used the old "this footage was found at a later date" idea.

Plot wise, this movie really doesn't have anything to show for itself. There are a couple of scenes inside a cave, where the team finds a laughably poorly made alien skull, as well as a scene inside an alien ship, which looks surprisingly human made.
I'm not sure how the actually got inside the ship, I guess I nodded off a bit when that happened, but I guess that doesn't matter. It wasn't very exciting anyway.
For some reason, the ship shoots fireworks after they escape from it.

All in all, nothing happens in Alien Origin. It's 88 minutes of a shaky camera filming militaries who don't know how to handle guns running through a jungle.
Probably the most boring movie produced by The Asylum I have ever seen.

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