Target Earth

Poster tagline: RAW PANIC! THE SCREEN NEVER DARED REVEAL! This film must be judged by the lens of the time and respect the filmmaking practices of the time, such as borrowing live footage of military equipment from other films (so feel free to ignore the stupid reviews here). The brilliant opening 20 minutes are like a worse Hitchcock – suspicion, fear, trying to understand "what the hell is going on?". Then when the cards are laid on the table, the first robot appears (which you’ll enjoy for about 5 minutes of the total runtime) and the army gets involved, the film gradually stops being that interesting and you just wait for the big finale, which somehow doesn't live up to expectations (unless we mean the ridiculous battle with one robot on the hotel balcony). I find the concept of a global catastrophe through the eyes of 6 people who avoided evacuation and are surviving a hotel interesting and, given the genre, refreshing. And so it doesn't matter that the robot invaders are not terrifying and look like Robot Emil from a popular Czech TV series from the 1960s. The twist, on the other hand, clearly indicates where Tim Burton found his inspiration in the way he disposed of the aliens in Mars Attacks. (29.12.2012)