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Invaders [VHS]

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Scott Bakula leaps into this action-pack film with both feet running. Playing a desperate pilot who must attempt to uncover and stop a plot to over-throw the Earth with the help of Elizabeth Pena, Bakula does a wonderful job throughout the movie as he once again shows his wide range of acting abilities. The movie has some good special effects although the aliens leave a little to be desired. This is a great movie for those who like suspence in science fiction, but don't want blood and gore. If you're trying to quit smoking this movie is for you.

THE INVADERS was one of my favorite t.v. shows when I was growing up; Roy Thinnes was superb as David Vincent, the man trying to tell the world that aliens were taking over the earth by inhabiting the bodies of humans. Twenty years after the series went off the air, THE INVADERS became a made for TV movie, and obviously a pilot for another series that didn't come to fruition. Hence, you're given a three hour movie that is not given commercial breaks; therefore, you have some tedious dialogue and redundant chases that ultimately bog the movie down. The special effects, what little they are, are below average, and the direction needed some Geritol.
Scott Bakula as the new David Vincent tries hard but ultimately his actions seem foolish and he's never really convincing as the possessed human. Richard Thomas gets by in his role, but he never possesses the menace he should. Terrance Knox as Detective Coyle has a hard time showing the changes once he's been programmed. His cocking of the head left and right is supposed to show his implant; it's actually hilarious. Elizabeth Pena brings no life to her role as Bakula's reluctant assistant; needed an actress with more vitality and intensity. Pena always seems to underplay her roles to the point she looks bored. Thinnes himself makes a cameo appearance and seems as excited as a slug.
THE INVADERS is not awful; it entertains, even at its lengthy three hours; it's ending is also very disappointing.

Original version is far better that this "pilot" version. Special effects in the Quinn Martin Production were so real... look at the way this version show the death of an alien. Did you see the UFO's here? And the main character has nothing to do compared to the famous David Vincent role. Forget it!

This film has very little to praise it. My advice is save your money and wait for the release of the orginal tv series.

Well I like Scott Bakula. He's a good actor and did a good job in the film. The problem I had with this movie is it did not follow the storyline of the original television at all. This head shaking vibrating business when the aliens were trying to control humans was NOT in the original TV show and actually was kind of ridiculous. If the movie had followed the original storyline and had similar but updated special effects the movie could have been a home run. It was obvious the writer was trying to create something different and unigue but that is where he or she failed miserably. That is not what people wanted to see. The people who went to watch this movie went to see the old Invaders but with better special effects. What they got was a poorly written film and mediocre special effects.

Long before David Duchovny's Fox Mulder was chasing alien conspirators, Roy Thinnes in the person of David Vincent was on a one-man crusade to reveal the aliens among us. This 1995 miniseries stars Scott Bakula in a similar role. Thinnes appears briefly as Vincent. Richard Thomas, who seems not to have aged a day since "The Waltons," is one of the humans taken over by the malevolent aliens.

A routine exercise in science fiction politics, the film benefits from a knock-out performance from Jon Polito, late of "Homicide: Life on the Streets," as a harried subway operator. His is the only reason for viewing although he doesn't appear until the film's last quarter.

One of the best scifi alien-related movies I've seen so far, and I've seen a lot of them.

No clue as to why this movie isn't popular here in the US, in Germany it was a hit. It also seems to be very hard to find for some reason.

How can this DVD be $99.99 in any format. i havew a PAL system but not for $99 dollars. Minus well buy the Ufo as well