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Alien Hunter [DVD]
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Genre | Action, Sci-Fi |
Format | Color, NTSC, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Subtitled, Special Edition See more |
Contributor | Binev, Nikolai, Stanchev, George, Vasileva, Svetla, Graham, Aimee, Stefanson, Leslie, Eser, Janine, Charno, Stuart, Aleksandrov, Hristo, Vodenicharov, Kaloian, Clarkson, Ross W., Dorsey, Rufus, Dotrice, Roy, Skinner, William Ladd, Lewis, Carl, Spader, James, Vallette, Franklin A., Lynch, John, Schultz, Woody, Crivello, Anthony See more |
Language | French |
Runtime | 1 hour and 32 minutes |
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Product Description
For the NASA-funded research team stationed at the most desolate reaches of Antarctica, it's another routine day - until the communications satellite picks up a mysterious signal coming from a strange object lodged several meters beneath the ice. Suspecting it may not be from Earth, the lead scientist immediately places a call to Julian Rome (James Spader), an old friend formerly employed as a cryptologist for the U.S. government's SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program. Catching the next flight to the South Pole, this former "alien hunter" is soon led to the unidentified object which is still encased in a large block of ice. After constructing a makeshift decoder, Rome quickly cracks the complex mathematical code, only to discover the message is an alien warning. Now it's a terrifying race against time to prevent the total annihilation of the planet in this pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 ounces
- Media Format : Color, NTSC, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Subtitled, Special Edition
- Run time : 1 hour and 32 minutes
- Release date : October 28, 2003
- Actors : Aleksandrov, Hristo, Binev, Nikolai, Charno, Stuart, Clarkson, Ross W., Crivello, Anthony
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, French
- Language : English, French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B0000CABBQ
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #62,060 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,392 in Science Fiction DVDs
- #6,076 in Action & Adventure DVDs
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Synopsis:
Julian Rome (James Spader) is a cryptologist asked to investigate an object found in an impossible amount of ice in Antarctica that seems to be emitting an intelligent signal. Julian is presented as an intelligent and attractive ladie's man but unlike most stereotypical 'lady killer' characters he is not an obnoxious prick about it. His former love interest is stationed at the same facility and gives him grief but again not in a typical shallow way. In general most of the characters while not necessarily hugely developed do defy most genre conventions.
The team eventually opens the object just as Julian realizes that's the exact wrong thing to do but not why. The why is where this film leaves its creature feature facade behind, it's an interesting twist on a concern rarely addressed in popular media dealing with extraterrestrials. The film hums along at a decent pace and while the ending is, well, weird, it's not much weirder than the rest of the film and has the advantage of being unique, an apparently dirty word in most films today.
Make your character ensemble resemble the stock 1950s science fiction cast, especially the one butthead in the crew who always pulls the switch marked "Do Not Pull"; drinks all the whiskey he can find in the doctor's medicine cabinet; shoots off all the signal flares for fun; gets on the radio to try to get through to his girlfriend in Jersey and manages to short out the one circuit needed to call for help from NASA; and otherwise behaves like such an utter boob the audience is hard-pressed to believe any such chucklehead got on a the roster for a critical mission like this in the first place. Happens every time, though - except in Carpenter's movie. John Carpenter would never put up with a character like that in his storyline. But to this bunch of second rate hacks, crewman Buddy is a blessing. You can get Buddy to do anything, in this case shooting the alien, and poof! You've got suspense. Well, actually, for most of the audience you've got an annoyance and good reason to leave the theater at the halfway mark, which is what I did. So this must remain half a review. A customer tough enough to sit through the whole thing can write the next half.
Have always loved James Spader and he's such a good actor and terribly underrated, sometimes.
If you love a thought provoking, "thinking person's" sci-fi story, you will love this movie. Very believable, actually, if something like this event did happen. I can see how our government would react just like it did in the movie.
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This is a fairly straightforward science fiction/alien film that uses the name of James Spader as a drawcard. Quite dated now as it was made in 2003, the story still holds together well enough even though it doesn't do anything groundbreaking. The film's pacing is a bit off, feeling extremely rushed in the first thirty minutes, then dragging somewhat as it tries to establish the characters in the Antarctic base, before giving away its secret two-thirds of the way through and then progressing reasonably well through to the ending. Fortunately the filmmakers wrapped the production up quite well.
I suspect the film would have presented far better on Blu-ray than the DVD copy I purchased as the picture has fairly bland colours and a very basic surround audio track on DVD (not that you can expect too much on any DVD). 3.5 stars.