Alien Overlords (2018) Reviews

• Alien Overlords: How did this cost a million dollars?!

  Platypuschow2019-01-17

  Looking at the cover of Alien Overlords you'd likely make some assumptions right? Alien invasion movie? Space ships? Lasers? Aliens? etc etc. Let me start right off the bat saying that it's not and it's one of the most deceptive movie covers I've seen in months. Alien Overlords is filmed in a faux documentary format following a conspiracy theorist who claims to have evidence of government conspiracies and the infamous men in black. Is he a crazy old man or is there something to his claims? The film has no action, it's essentially a "Talkie" and therefore very niche and certainly not what you'd likely expect. It follows the wacky conspiracy theory spouting man around as he begins to question everything and everyone around him. The rants and conspiracies that you will hear are generally the classics from chemtrails to the government poisoning the water for population control, all head scratchingly silly stuff that scarily countless people believe. One of the other reviews on here is simply "If you cannot handle the truth, do not watch that docu-movie and continue to live your life sleeping" which I could say so much about but kind of demonstrates the theme of the movie perfectly. I see the appeal of this, for those who adore real documentaries about similar themes and those who enjoy the X-files. For me however this was a bit of a drag, I guess I'm "Sleeping". The Good: Couple of interesting ideas Nice monologue The Bad: Ultimately about themes that people in real life take too seriously Hardly engaging stuff Documentarian get's really annoying

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• Watching someone tell a story

  bomopu-545732018-12-01

  A sort of 'found footage' style film - although it presents itself as a re-enactment of actual events instead of being found footage, it is all still filmed through a hand held camera. The acting actually isn't so bad but it's just really slow for the most part as we are largely just watching someone tell a story about what is going on in their life with regard to the conspiracy he is trying to expose rather than watching the events unfold ourselves. Saved from a 1 star by the final 30 minutes which manages to bring some mystery and tension to it but it's too little and too late and the twist at the end was seen coming halfway through. Also, don't be fooled by the poster - it has no bearing on the film at all!

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• Cringe

  jaye722019-01-03

  I usually like these conspiracy films, but the way it was shot and the charecters were real flimsy and I found myself hating the main charecter. Watched about 15 minutes before swearing and turning it off. It's the sort of thing someone would make that wanted to underhandedly ridicule conspiracy movies..

• Why?

  colsos2018-12-14

  You know the saying, that watching motion pictures make you literally dumb? I never believed in that until I started watching this,... i'm writing this review while movie is playing on background window. This is my first review ever, never felt the need to bother with it, but i just had to get it off my chest...this movie was so poor, my only conclusion is that it was made so alienated stupid on purpose! 1 Like a big middle finger up yours, thank you, come again. 2 Watch X-files if you want to be entertained 3 It did let me write my first review about a movie so, cheers to that.

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• Its not what it seems

  p_neve2019-01-19

  I have started watching this movie 3 times for the first 5 minutes, then turned it off, the 4th time, I stuck with it, I am glad I did, for a faux documentary style which I normally hate, this turned out to be one of the better and convincing faux I have seen in a good while. As a huge fan of documentaries, this had me thinking, with the great acting from the main character you really start to believe what he is saying until a third character then starts to make you think again. If you are into UFO conspiracy stuff then stick with it, you will be believe in it more and if you think that UFO's are just 'swamp gas' then you may come away from this with a different point of view. I thought it was well done, acting was convincing enough to start to put the seeds of truth in your head and then you feel them grow. Get past the first 10 minutes and maybe you will thinking to yourself as Mulder once did 'I want to believe

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