This could have been a good film. I mean it. Where they screwed-up was in the fact that they included so much that SCREAMED for exposition, but they did nothing with all of it. Take the guy at the beginning: where did he come from? What was he doing with the laser rifle? How did he get it? Was he a mutated human (as our "hero" later became,) or was he an alien?
Same thing for Tony Craig, the MIB type. Who did he work for? Why was the sheriff so intimidated by him? What was Craig's connection to the aliens?
As to the alien creatures, were they interstellar policemen? I liked them, personally. Some things I noticed when they got the message from their leader on their ship's view-screen: he gives them an almost Nazi-like hand salute, and one of them responds. The leader then talks to them in an oddly guttural, German-like accent. In fact, he sounded something like Hermann Goering.
In short, they could have extrapolated on all of this and much more and not left the audience shaking its collective head.
As to the acting, it was pretty bad. I can't figure out why Kim Milford, who was obviously pretty talented (as well as very cute,) did this film. Did he read the script and decide that it was so lousy that he'd phone in his performance? Was he genuinely inept at this stage in his career, or did he really try and was he then defeated by the director and film editor?
I have a feeling that Milford didn't discuss this movie much in the last decade of his life. I doubt that Gianni Russo does to this day.
Same thing for Tony Craig, the MIB type. Who did he work for? Why was the sheriff so intimidated by him? What was Craig's connection to the aliens?
As to the alien creatures, were they interstellar policemen? I liked them, personally. Some things I noticed when they got the message from their leader on their ship's view-screen: he gives them an almost Nazi-like hand salute, and one of them responds. The leader then talks to them in an oddly guttural, German-like accent. In fact, he sounded something like Hermann Goering.
In short, they could have extrapolated on all of this and much more and not left the audience shaking its collective head.
As to the acting, it was pretty bad. I can't figure out why Kim Milford, who was obviously pretty talented (as well as very cute,) did this film. Did he read the script and decide that it was so lousy that he'd phone in his performance? Was he genuinely inept at this stage in his career, or did he really try and was he then defeated by the director and film editor?
I have a feeling that Milford didn't discuss this movie much in the last decade of his life. I doubt that Gianni Russo does to this day.