HARBINGER DOWN

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Some movies do not make it to the cinema and without want to waste the money spent, they released it on BlueRay like this one. Clubs or small digital cinemas are fine to broadcast these at their venues as they know that no big film companies will be banging at their door for showing illegal movies.

One would be tempted to watch this because of what written on the cover "Alien vs predator" and " "stormtroopers" . But why in German (?) Perhaps it was released in German ? Ok many questions but let just leave it that way and go straight to the movie.

The other crowd puller is Lance Heriksen. The android (he was younger then) who got ripped off in Aliens. And he had acted in one of the AvV series before. So this cant be that bad.

In terms of suspense its not that bad also. Only that when the alien appeared  you could be exclaiming WTF or OMG ! The concept of the alien is great thou - that it fell to earth in the early 80's in a Soviet capsule and had been freezing in the Behring Sea all this while untile a crab fishing vessel by the name of Harbinger (so thats the title) happened to got it on board and things (as expected) got squassy. But theres a sub plot to this thou I wont spoil the "fun" of watching this. Back to the concept - so this alien has been absorbing all the DNA it was in contact with when it was in the water. As you know fishes, crabs, plankton, whales, bacteria etc etc. And of course human DNA too. It can change form from liquid to solid and vice versa. So its very mobile.  

My problem is that the Alien become undefined. What the F** is it ? To me its more like a creepy plant thing rather than animals. So when you have an alien who could be anything anywhere and everywhere in the movie, that scary part fails. I wish it was like Alien or any other even cheap skate monster movie where you know how it looked like and you are entertain through out the movie being frightened by the sight of it. 

The other thing that bugs me was why the Russian wants just to test how bad the Alien is even deciding to destroy if its that bad. And why the crew of Harbinger have no thought to do mankind a favour - destroy the alien for god sake before it spread to the main land. And the final treatment with the Harbinger at the end is also in doubt. Can it eliminate the thing (a better word) ?? Maybe a sequel for the next one ? Hope not.

So thats my thoughts. Expect the expected.