Review of Alienator (1990) by Allan C — 16 Nov 2014
"What kind of accent is that? Are you French?" Scintillating dialogue like that dominates this Fred Olen Ray schlock about battling aliens, ALA Star Wars, who's battle finds it's way to modern day earth.
It may have been kind of fun to do a fish-out-of-water sci-fi comedy about aliens battling in our world, but this film was overly serious and comes off as just dumb. This film made me appreciate the tone of Full Moon Pictures video of this same era, which were better able to balance no being overly serious but at the same not not becoming overly self mocking.
I do like Jan-Michael Vincent a lot, so I do enjoy seeing him in anything. I really do agree with Vincent that if he'd died after just making three films ("The Big Wednesday" "The Mechanic" and "Buster and Billie") he would have been remembered as another James Dean.
It's a pompous statement, but think he may have been right because he was fantastic in his early days before he ruined himself and his career with drugs and alcohol. This film also features John Phillip Law, Ross Hagen, P.
J. Soles and Joseph Pilato.
This review of Alienator (1990) was written by Allan C on 16 Nov 2014.
Alienator has generally received negative reviews.
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