Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Joe Bridge The next plan from outer space (plan 10? 11? 12 1/2?) involves a small group of aliens with white eyebrows. This helps the viewer to understand that they are aliens and not human, although many old HUMANS I have seen do indeed have white eyebrows. Oh well, they tried. Though they come from a distant galaxy, they somehow are able to use (primarily) human blood to heal their illness, and this involves harvesting humans with the government's permission. They hold lotteries, apparently, to see who is going.The makeup is atrocious - some sort of bluish price-reduction sticker on their cheeks and some sort of mossy-coloured squashed play-doh stuck on their neck. I almost expected to see newspaper hats. One Adams-family-like alien talks in a completely different manner and accent than the others. His voice also has such a high, hissy lisp, it is almost above the range of human hearing. I had to really focus and turn the volume up every time he spoke. It was akin to an animated snake reading Gothic poetry. Somehow, he even lisped letters like "b" and "k"...The most hilarious scene in this movie in when the alien tapes a girl's mouth shut with duct tape. This utterly ridiculous scene should really be put on a special compilation video of bad Science Fiction. So... not only do aliens from a distant galaxy have duct tape, they also carry it on their person just in case a human starts talking and annoys them, apparently.The other funniest thing is that when a car (or space ship) is shot with the laser weapon, it somehow turns into a flying cluster of metal storm gutters and other random bits.A lot of strange stuff going on in this movie, yet not quite hilarious enough to invest too much time in it... Watch Marvin the Martian shorts instead, I think he uses the same weapons.

Ray Humphries For starters this was a pretty good Sci Fi flick. Although I don't much like Brad Johnson, he does a yeoman like job with the Dr. Stephen Chase role. Miss Ross plays his daughter, with the (apparently) obligatory personality characteristic of always arguing when she's told to do something. I'd think the feminists would get tired of this ubiquitous character trait, but maybe it's one of which they approve. Ah, they probably don't watch sci fi anyway. Miss Lane, who plays Blair, isn't exactly a babe, but she's kick-ass tough. As she says to a couple of soldiers she's just taken down, "I have unresolved anger issues." I really like this kind of strong female character. Remember Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) in "Alias"? I also don't have any issue with the technical stuff. The shuttlecraft, the ray-guns, etc. all seem adequate for this level of production. Unlike so many, even high-budget films, the good guys did manage a respectable number of hits for their efforts with automatic weapons. Dr. Johnson does seem rather too knowledgeable in the operation of alien devices, but he is a PhD, and he has been studying their artifacts for years, so maybe that's okay. I was amused that he managed to hang onto his coat, until at the very end when he finally went out into the cold Montana air and left it in the shuttlecraft.As for the main theme of the movie and the ethical dilemmas it poses, I believe we may have a case of art imitating life, because I see "Alien Siege" as a metaphor for the Holocost: all the allusions to "race" and "blood"; hauling all the selectees off to the collection points; the total lack of resistance by almost all those selected; the co-operation of the American troops and officials in the whole process reflects near repetition of everything I have read about the roles of local collaborators with the Nazis. The big difference in the movie is that there is a resistance movement and that it is successful. That's an opportunity that the Jews, as a minority in all the occupied and co-opted countries, did not have. I'm glad to see that Carl Weathers' character, General Skyler, got out of this with his hide. Carl often fares much less well at the hands of his alien foes. Remember what "Predator" did to him...

BryanVFX I enjoyed watching this film from the Sci-Fi Channel. The action sequences were well done and the story had more to it than you would expect. This movie is well crafted in classic Sci-Fi fashion. It takes a modern philosophical question and examines it. It was sort of like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" meeting Star Trek. The Kulku, a race of humanoids whom are scientifically far more advanced that humans, need to harvest people in order to ensure the survival of their race. The Kulku feel that they are a superior race and that the people of earth are beings of low intelligence. If you look a step deeper into the movie (understanding that the great apes share 99% of the genetic code as humans, yet experiments are constantly performed on them for our benefit), "Alien Siege" poses some interesting afterthoughts. Overall it is a fun movie and an interesting take on the theme. Definitely worth watching.

emolina979 Aliens harvesting humans to save themselves from a plague! Humans turning over their own to save their lives! I think the makers were trying to address some Big Moral Issues about what people would sink to in order to save themselves, but this movie just gets lost in the details. It is very distracting when the alien soldiers dress like waiters. Also, stand straight up in the open when someone shoots at them (I guess this proves they are not human?). And it's very disconcerting the way the humans shoot them with machine guns, and just happen to get them right between the eyes - even if only a couple of times. Then there's the earth resistance, who are desperate to get alien technology to turn it back on them, and never actually try to pick up the sidearms the alien soldiers drop when the resistance fighters kill them by the truckload (well, they don't take cover - do they?). They need a Scientist who was studying Wreckage from an Alien Crash to figure out that we can use their weapons. There's a lot of this stuff - too much for a good action movie, and not enough explanation, character development, etc. for an issue movie. Thud.