Alien Hunter (2003)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Ron Krauss

Writers (WGA):

J.S. Cardone (story) and
Boaz Davidson (story) ...

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

At The Ends Of The Earth, It's The End Of The World...

Plot:

An alien black box is found in the South Pole, where a government agency is conducting botanical experiments.

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Antarctica | Secret Lab | Alien Invasion | English Subtitles In Original

Cast

James Spader	...	Julian Rome
Janine Eser	...	Dr. Kate Brecher
John Lynch	...	Dr. Michael Straub
Nikolai Binev	...	Dr. Alexi Gierach
Leslie Stefanson	...	Nyla Olson
Aimee Graham	...	Shelly Klein
Stuart Charno	...	Abell (as Stu Charno)
Carl Lewis	...	Grisham
Svetla Vasileva	...	Dacia
Anthony Crivello	...	Pilot
Kaloian Vodenicharov	...	Co-Pilot (as Kaloyan Vodenicharov)
George Stanchev	...	Airman
Rufus Dorsey	...	Navigator
Roy Dotrice	...	Dr. John Bachman
Woody Schultz	...	Sam

Also Known As:

The Beacon (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some violence.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA | Bulgaria

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R (certificate #38960) | Finland:K-15 | Netherlands:12 | USA:R | Argentina:13 | Denmark:11 | New Zealand:M | Spain:13 | Australia:M | Germany:12 | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Sofia, Bulgaria

Company:

Nu Image Films

Trivia:

The black & white footage shown to Julian Rome is footage from The Thing from Another World (1951). This footage was also used in the remake of The Thing from Another World, John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), and it is the film that R.J. MacReady finds in the destroyed Norwegian camp.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Some of the spoken Russian is complete gibberish.

Movie Connections:

References E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Science fiction by the numbers.

James Spader plays a cryptologist who is summoned to the Antarctic where a research station has uncovered something in the ice shelf that is emitting radio signals in a non-random pattern. As the ice melts around it, the scientists discover that it is some sort of alien pod. Too late, Spader decyphers the message which is telling them not to disturb the vessel.

This film takes a little bit from several other science fiction movies and blends the parts into a pretty weak story. There's nothing new here, but at least the filmmakers realize that and set about with providing simple entertainment.

You could do a lot worse at the video store.