Madness or genius? This twenty-years celebration of The Asylum studios is totally self-aware and played ridiculously (and at times hilariously) straight. The high-concept meta-story sees an Independence Day-style alien invasion that uses the roster of The Asylum's greatest creature-features from the last two decades to decimate humanity. Inevitably the film cannot deliver fully on this astonishing concept, with all-too-brief appearances of giant sharks, piranha and other mega-creatures and giant robots, and the Greatest Hits approach is undoubtedly fun but undone but often cheap-looking CGI, leaden and wordy dialogue and unremarkable acting, all of which rather sink the ambition of the enterprise which far exceeds the execution here. Once shape-shifers, mind control and poorly-acted zombies enter the fray, all hope is lost, even with Michael Pare as the President and the occasional presence of a sadly-underused Paul Logan. The audacity of the way the plot is used as shameless celebration/self-promotion of the studio is admirable, but ultimately the film sadly does not deliver what it promised effectively.
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