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Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Nov 20225/10
Some time after aliens have landed on Earth and pretty much decimated North America, they turn their attentions on Sydney and bent on the destruction of that city - and it's population - arrive in great numbers with overwhelming technological and military superiority. Luckily, though, there are a band of plucky resistance fighters whom, along with a few of the aliens sympathetic to their cause, are working together to find a way to thwart this seemingly unstoppable invasion. Well to be fair - the visual effects are not half bad: plenty of lasers and space ships, pyrotechnics and gun battles - it does not hang around. The acting and the dialogue, though, well that's where it parts company from the obvious similarity with "Independence Day" (1996) because here, that is all really pretty dreadful. Hunky Dan Ewing's "Matt" leads the charge but there is plenty of internal power-struggling with "Bartlett" (Temuera Morrison) and "Hayes" (Daniel Gillies) to clutter up the already pretty convoluted characterisations. It's ridiculously long, too - almost like two or three episodes of a weak mini-series rolled into one. Perhaps it did wonders for the sale of rubber "Sea Devil" masks, but othe
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Cast
- Dan EwingMatt Simmons
- Jet TranterAmelia Chambers
- Temuera MorrisonPeter Bartlett
- Ken JeongBud Miller
- Jason IsaacsSteve (voice)
- Daniel GilliesHayes
- Lawrence MakoareGarry the Alien
- Dena KaplanRobin Sigiro
- Vince ColosimoJacob
- Katrina RisteskaSuarez
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- Luke SparkeDirector
- Luke SparkeWriter
- Wade MullerDirector of Photography
- Luke SparkeEditor
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