Take 1 squad of generic action-flick police.
Mix in 1 part independence Day ship arrival FX, complete with blue energy weapons.
Add a generous helping of bullet-proof rubber-suit aliens. That (mostly) wear helmets, but nothing else.
A few tentacles to bring out the flavour.
A pinch of Aliens (the movie) set decoration near the end.
Under-cook for 100 minutes periodically sprinkling on half the TV-Tropes website's contents.
Spoilers: Aliens are harvesting human blood (rather than growing it by the tank-full in nice sterile controlled lab conditions aboard their inter-stellar-capable ships). Protagonist has blood cancer. You know how it ends.
For a while I was wondering if they were deliberately going for a '60's B-movie theme, but with more modern production techniques, however I don't think that was the intent - it wasn't nearly campy enough to be a deliberate parody.
I have a pretty low expectation threshold for action-sci-fi, and wouldn't call this 'unwatchable', just a rather pointless rehash of tired themes with nothing to say, original or otherwise.
Spoilers: Aliens are harvesting human blood (rather than growing it by the tank-full in nice sterile controlled lab conditions aboard their inter-stellar-capable ships). Protagonist has blood cancer. You know how it ends.
For a while I was wondering if they were deliberately going for a '60's B-movie theme, but with more modern production techniques, however I don't think that was the intent - it wasn't nearly campy enough to be a deliberate parody.
I have a pretty low expectation threshold for action-sci-fi, and wouldn't call this 'unwatchable', just a rather pointless rehash of tired themes with nothing to say, original or otherwise.