AE: Apocalypse Earth

Oh dearie dearie me!!! Terrible acting. Weak storyline and edited with a pair of scissors and someone who didn't know what the storyline was supposed to be. Worth missing.

If you base your review on the first 10-15 minutes of this film I can see the low rating, because the acting does starts out pretty poor. Once you get past that the acting does improve and the story is worth watching. Some of the concepts do 'borrow' a few unique ideas from at least three other films/TV series, those being Predator, Star Trek Next Generation, and Planet of the Apes. This was obviously a low budget film, so if you are looking for multi-million dollar state of the art special effects, you may be disappointed. That said, if you like a decent story, the acting really does get better and it was an enjoyable film.

This movie would have served as a Star Trek TNG movie. There were too many familiar characters. The android TIM was/is Data in every way... Or they should have changed that android character completely, and I don't mean turning him into a hologram like in Star Trek VGR or a robot like Star Wars C3PO. For this movie to work, this was the most important change needed. The bikini clad jungle girl should had been naked, I know she practically was, but it would have made more sense. The "chameleons" were too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator. I understand the low budget, but too many things are too... lets just say .. unoriginal. Even if they gave to chameleons a hue, or an aura. SOMETHING! The movie was actually pretty good if you overlooked the poor quality CGI and the complete ripoff on Star Trek's Data, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator, and the original The Planet of the Apes' ending, but I liked it. Do NOT take this movie seriously, nor expect too much, and you'll be surprised its actually something from Asylum.

This must be the worst movie I've seen in years. Poor effects The explosions, blasts, ships and vehicles are so fake, like something went wrong in the rendering process. Poor sound -Poor acting/dialogues The actors are not believable, and the dialogues are so unnatural and often obvious. The storyline is quite nice, but so badly interpreted. At first it reminded me of a average Stargate episode but it went worse every minute. A complete waste of my time Greetings, Koen

But, I've seen worse, too, although I can't remember exactly when. As has already been pointed out, the acting was not great, although there were a couple of bright spots. Though there was an interesting germ of an idea at the core of this story, the writing was horrible. However, I think the more seasoned actors did the best with what they had. Both Adrian Paul and Richard Grieco have been around for years and have had some pretty good projects in the past and they clearly made an effort. With that said, I'll give it one star for the writing, one for the acting and two more for the two best things about this movie - the Costa Rican scenery and Bali Rodriguez, which I guess could also be considered Costa Rican scenery.

Every time the Asylum releases a new movie, some pseudo film 'expert' declares it to be 'the worst movie ever made', 'scraping the bottom of the barrel', or some other such derogatory garbage. Well, none of these comments are true - what about the 50's B- Movies in which the alien was a man in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on his head? Or 'Run For Your Wife'? The truth is that the Asylum is expert at extracting the most movie from the least money, and no film illustrates this more than AE Apocalypse Earth. In 90 minutes it draws from Predator, Avatar and After Earth, utilising a decent lead man (Adrian Paul), passable CGI, exotic locations, and far from the worst script and direction I've seen, all for a budget not exceeding $1m. Sure, it's never going to win any awards, and is best regarded as a 'Saturday night after a few drinks' kind of movie, but let's put an end to this Asylum-bashing. Let's see you do better! (And remember this - the Asylum has never lost money on a movie. How many other studios can say that? I suspect none.)