Rish Outfield's reviews
This was like a long episode of "The New Outer Limits," only less serious. I thought it was a normal movie until I saw the first commercial fade out. But it was already too late. I had purchased a made for TV movie.
Pretty "Melrose Place" star Susan Walters is about to get married. An alien ship comes down and one of the beings replaces her fiancé. The doppleganger helps recruit others, but the bride gets suspicious and other stuff happens. I'm sleeping now.
So, it wasn't a great movie. So, it's not worth seeing. But I'm trying to think of something positive to say. Its special effects were pretty good (syndicated 90's sci-fi series quality, at least). Richard Herd is always cool. But this was an odd movie. Nothing felt real, as if everything were staged (I know it was just a movie so it was really all staged, but it felt like even the characters were conscious of it). It had stupid TV humour I thought we had outgrown in the 70's. There was some sappy stupid music thrown in along those same lines. Walters as the female lead was attractive, but I never felt for her character. She went from trusting to mistrusting to trusting, then to mistrusting again, and from happy to unhappy then back to happy and then unhappy again. Is ANYBODY like this? I mean, one day she's accusing her husband of being some kind of brainwashed imposter, the next she's planning outings they'll take with their grandchildren. Try a little consistency, folks.
I never felt there was a threat, never any danger, if anything, the people (and their reactions) were scarier than the aliens. In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the telling sign of alienhood was someone's lack of personality and emotion. That's not the case here, not at all. In fact, the giveaway is that the aliens don't drink or smoke or run from commitment or cheat on their wives. . .of course, it's up to us to destroy them. The thing that was so garishly wrong about all this was that these creatures are clearly not evil, and they don't even kill the people they supplant. At the end, the husband replacement explains that they are the last of their species, and they just want to survive. Of course, they are ruthlessly exterminated. As asked in Darkman, who's the real monster here?
Best Scare: The creature on the cover looks nothing like that in the movie. It's scary they can get away with that.
I'd Recommend It To: Fans of lesser modern TV horror movies.
Note: I wasn't kidding about the Horror Film Showing--at one point, the husband turns on the television and watches a minute or so of the movie this is a remake of. If that doesn't inspire you to stay away, you're a lost cause.

The tyranist's thoughts
Well, then. I don't suppose there's really much to say on this one. It was a little made-for-TV flick that could have been way better and really for the most part reminded me more of Tommyknockers than anything else.
The cast was somewhat likeable until they turned alien. The setting was nice, but then I like small town America. The plot was a little thin at times and very predictable, but really in the end they only managed to achieve mediocrity. There just isn't much to this one.
I did like the thing with dogs, but then that's how they act around me all the time so maybe I just sympathised. Take it or leave it though. If you run across this one, and you like alien invasion stories you might get a kick out of this. Otherwise I'd say it isn't worth the time spent.