"Fear, mostly."
This simple low-rent South African sci-fi-comedy seems to be aiming for a similar vibe to TV's Spaced and the early Peter Jackson films but does not quite get there, as three downtrodden employees of a corrupt mining company find themselves in an even worse situation after a takeover and undertake a heist to rob the company as payback, only to find themselves contending with an alien invasion as well. The first act is limp office comedy, full of stereotypes and forced humour, the second act continues in much the same vein whilst setting up the heist element, and the livelier final act pits our hapless but quite endearing protagonists against their three new (alien) bosses. This is a very small-scale film which plays up the relationships and quirk level to try to compensate, and saves some reasonable effects work until the low-powered finale.
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