This is a movie for true b-movie horror fans. It's Peter Jackson's first feature-length film that took four years and a lot of his buddies to put together. There's a lot of gore (surprise, surprise), some gunfights, and some hand-to-hand combat to make up the bulk of the film. The plot, well, it basically involves a group of aliens sent to earth to collect people as the source of meat for their intergalactic fast-food chain, and the local "special forces" sent out to find out what's going on, and take whatever actions necessary to try and stop them. So yeah, unless you're a die-hard Peter Jackson fan or like some bad 80's b-movie gore, you probably won't dig this movie too much. At least you get to see Peter Jackson in not just one but two roles (he looks quite different without the beard as the demented scientist Derek of the 'special forces' team, who has a problem with keeping his brains inside his head). It's more funny than anything else (though there is a scene with a community bowl of chuck that, well, is just plain gross). There's a lot of great quotes throughout the movie, the most notable would be, "The Bastards have landed!" for true Peter Jackson fans.
