Review of Occupation (2018) by Lou Z — 31 Jul 2018

Seriously, I'm trying to help you save $7 or whatever rental fee you might otherwise waste on this movie. I don't have any idea how this movie has an audience score of 98% because it may actually be the worst movie I've ever seen.

There are some decent actors in this film, but it's plagued by a weak story, dreadful writing, some of the cheesiest music you've ever heard and utterly lazy, incompetent film making in general.

There's an alien invasion. Some people are killed or captured (to grow fruit for the aliens), others run. Then they fight back. That's it. That's the whole movie. There's no character development.

There are countless scenes that make no sense. You pretty much care about nobody because there's nothing about any of them that matters. Things that you think will go toward character development later? They don't.

They're just hanging out there unresolved forever. Some excellent moments: A central character (I don't know his name because nobody matters in this movie) rips a teeny tiny bandage off of his head, to show us that he's not giving up and is gonna keep fighting.

There's no wound underneath the bandage. Like maybe a tiny bit of dirt but that's it. This is a guy who was in an alien mothership when it exploded to smithereens, and somehow escaped alive with just a teeny tiny bandage covering.

..nothing. Until a couple scenes later, that is, when there's a cut on his head. WTF?! And then there's the scene with a group of main characters (again, not sure of any of their names) in a house.

There's only a few of them. They're not hard to keep track of. A couple of women, a bunch of guys. Some of them are out hunting aliens. Some are in the house. Anyway, there's a scene right outside of the house and some random woman is walking across the porch of the house.

She's not even in the movie. It's probably the woman whose house it was that her friend begged her "Can I PLEEEEEZE shoot my space alien movie at your house?!" Maybe it's the director's Aunt or something.

I dunno but it's illustrative of the complete mess this movie is. The best though is one of the final scenes in which a main character (don't know her name, but the actress was in a BSG movie and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and some other stuff) goes to make friends with the aliens.

Ok, so in reality it might be worth $7 just to see that scene after watching the rest of the movie, only because there's a very good chance that it might topple the "I'm not putting on the sunglasses!" scene from "They Live" as the all-time worst scene in a movie.

Ever. (but really it's not worth watching just for that...just take my word for it).