James ("Spike" from Buffy) Marsters heads a cast of several in this 2009 entry in the Cowboys vs Aliens genre. Possibly it is the first? It is certainly a couple of years ahead of the big budget 2011 movie which bears the Cowboys vs Aliens name, and bears an amusingly cute name of its own.
Being a SyFy channel movie, the production budget is not huge, which makes it gratifying to see how effectively it has been used. The movie is well structured and paced, the CGI aliens (armour plated scorpions with guns instead of stings) are well designed and surprisingly convincing, the action is decent, the acting is respectable, and the look of the thing gives an impression of production values, even if the location is somewhat under-populated.
Not bad at all.
Being a SyFy channel movie, the production budget is not huge, which makes it gratifying to see how effectively it has been used. The movie is well structured and paced, the CGI aliens (armour plated scorpions with guns instead of stings) are well designed and surprisingly convincing, the action is decent, the acting is respectable, and the look of the thing gives an impression of production values, even if the location is somewhat under-populated.
Not bad at all.