7cb1d79195 The owner of a small-town junkyard offers a cash reward to whomever can kill her uninvited, space-suited alien guest when its spacecraft crash-lands into her barn. Every wacko within 100 miles turns out, and before long, the junkyard is transformed into a war zone of man vs. man vs. machine vs. alien vs. God only knows what. &quot;Alien Opponent&quot; is listed here on IMDbAction / Sci-Fi. Why not comedy? Because there surely wasn&#39;t an ounce of seriousness to this movie. The absurdity of the storyline and the grotesqueness of the characters just added up to one big bowl of comedy soup.<br/><br/>This movie was actually so cheesy that it was fun to sit through. Don&#39;t expect a major impressive storyline, because it just isn&#39;t here. This movie is about an alien crash landing on Earth and soon the small community is on end to cash in on a $100.000 price to reclaim the dead body of someone killed by the alien. The junkyard soon becomes a battle-zone where man fights man, but also fights the alien and fights machines.<br/><br/>This movie seemed to be a hilarious spoof on the Sci-Fi genre, and the character&#39;s in the movie were so outrageous that it was just hard to take thisa serious movie. And it was actually fun to sit through and watch how the people were taking out one another in various ways and in various methods.<br/><br/>The movie has Jeremy London and Roddy Piperthe top-lining billed names on the posted. Nothing else need be said…<br/><br/>But if you like senseless mayhem, twisted characters, murder and killing with various tools and styles, like campy aliens and questionable dialogue, then &quot;Alien Opponent&quot; is definitely right up your alley.<br/><br/>One thing did strike me odd though, because the title displayed in the actual movie was &quot;Alien Infiltration&quot; and not &quot;Alien Opponent&quot;here on IMDb. If you&#39;re reading this far, it probably means you&#39;re hoping to make sense of the title of this review. So let me explain: This movie is fairly low budget, has cheesy clichés everywhere, relatively poor special effects, and generic acting and simplistic dialogue that adheres very strictly to the cookie-cutter character types that populate the script.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t get me wrong, all of that is what actually what makes this film GOOD.<br/><br/>Aside from acting, production value, and good special effects, a good movie is made from two other very vital ingredients: cohesion and honesty.<br/><br/>When the director(s) and creators of a movie understand exactly what it is they are trying to convey, and then they creatively use all of the tools in their bag to clearly convey it, the result is a movie with good cohesion. It makes sense, it allows you to follow the story easily, and wraps you into the story.<br/><br/>What do I mean by honesty? I mean that some movies try very hard to be more than what they are, and it often comes offweak and even a little pretentious.<br/><br/>Alien Opponent puts forth no pretenses. It knows exactly what it wants to be: a fun hillbilly lovin&#39; action/sci-fi comedy.<br/><br/>My only real complaint is that the action sort of dries up towards the end, making things a little slower. They could have used even more characters on the battlefield.<br/><br/>I enjoyed this movie.
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