Rish Outfield's reviews
Some parts aren't too bad, actually, and some are really ripped liberally from Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Alien. This was an Italian-German production set in the U.S.A. and South America. Weird.
The description of the movie on the box held little resemblance to the actual film. A ship is seen drifting into New York harbor, and no one is onboard. Instead, the horribly mutilated corpses of crew members are found, as well as a disgusting alien bacteria that look like the eggs in Alien. When these insidious eggs hatch, they cause the people they touch to graphically explode. The truth is that these outer space eggs are part of a plot to take over the world! As awful as the film can be at times, there were some moments that were pretty great and I found it to be a fun B-movie with more gore than a clogged drain in a slaughterhouse.
This was gross, kids. As mentioned, it featured sickening alien eggs that cause people to explode when they hatch. And it happened a lot, as we were treated to graphic slow-motion exploding torso after exploding torso. But it was so over-the-top it wasn't really disturbing, it was just foul.
It was poorly dubbed with atrocious dialogue (I didn't give it two skulls because of the translation). But in some ways, the imperfect English dubbing heightened my enjoyment of the film, as I never took it seriously enough to be bothered by plot holes and lapses of logic ("Hey, wasn't there a mission to Mars a couple of years ago?" "Oh, yeah."). Long-time Dario Argento collaborators, Goblin, perform the soundtrack. A neat Bond villain subplot was cool (the bad guy had a little actual charisma). There was a monster that showed up at the end, but it was too dark to see it (and I think that was a blessing, as it felt incredibly cheap and fake-looking anyway). Okay, so the bacteria was brought back to Earth from that Mars mission. But where did the alien queen come from?
I'd Recommend It To: Italian gross-out fans.
Note: I've been told that the version I saw, while amazingly disgusting, is actually an EDITED version of the original. Wow.

The tyranist's thoughts
I chose to watch this on a night when I knew I would be following it up with a movie I was much more likely to enjoy. Perhaps that isn't fair to the movie, but I was already dreading seeing this so perhaps there is some justification in that I watched it at all.
The movie works to be futuristic, but does so cheaply. Add to that a strange plot that I would guess changed a couple times in the course of shooting and you end up with this. I didn't find the movie to be really bad, just boring. I found my attention wandering more than once and that's too bad. Pieces of the plot have been seen before, but they weren't really shooting for originality. I do have several problems with both titles and I didn't find it to be as gory and gross as Rish did.
Really, if you don't mind Italian films this one isn't too bad, but it is dry and unoriginal. You can probably find better, but you can definitely find worse.