FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

pavelnanometrics Seriously dino terminator robotic with midsection amoeba life sucking action? And it somehow can't break down an old log cabin door. However, there was plenty of sweaty boy flesh per the 'writer' / 'director' 'muse'...

Walter Goldenberg It moves quickly; has good writing in the form of a tight plot and some believable characters; and features interesting Utah landscapes and respectable special effects - pound for dollar (and it's free on SyFy), it's a worthy effort.The weakness is the inability of the director to control the mood in a perfectly competent manner. This inability is often seen in movies of this genre, and while THIRST doesn't make as many mistakes as other, lesser entries, the mistakes are certainly there.Here we have a group of people being terrorized and slaughtered by an alien creature, and yet they still have the wherewithal to make bad jokes at random moments and to seem oblivious to the epoch-making mystery of it all.To see what a grade A production can do with this kind of material, watch the 2011 version of THE THING. After her first horrific encounter with the creature, the young paleontologist gazes up at the stars and says, "I'll never look at them in the same way again..."An even better example of tight control is the Tom Cruise masterpiece EDGE OF TOMORROW. The humor is always there, but it's always apropos.

laced-angel I wish I could have given this movie more stars as there were some definite highlights, but too many clichés to rank it higher. Now I know that the film was low budget, but the things that took away from the movie were things that don't require money to improve on. A little more creativity would have saved this movie.The effects were good; some really great explosions mixed with some cool looking wounds & kill scenes. The biomech alien looked really cool, and I loved it's teeth! The acting was also good, with the exception of one character (the asshole was just terrible)& the script was decent, not too many lame one liners or anything like that. The action and pacing were also really well done.Overdone stereotypical personalities; beer-guzzling hick, geek, smart-ass jerk, come-into your own hero, even down to the token black character made this movie less interesting than it could have been. The Alien was (of course) feeding itself & it's baby, survived a bunch of things that should have killed it & then died by something a little less spectacular but also not anything new for this genre of movie. There was also, not once but twice, the extremely over used (and now eye-rolling bad) 'the car won't start' shtick.Overall it was pretty good and I had fun watching it. I wouldn't say to avoid it, especially if you're a fan of horror/sci-fi. It definitely has some really good moments. You have to just enjoy it for what it is and not expect it to be an awards contender.

S. Soma It's early evening out in the desert. A hayseed is driving along in his pickup drinking a beer and listening to country-western. Within moments, in the course of a single song, it's the dead of night. Since all the characters in this movie are cookie-cutter, two- dimensional and stereotypical, and this particular cookie-cutter is the hayseed-truck-driving-beer-drinking-country-western-listening- cookie-cutter, he must do what cookie-cutter stereotypes do. In other words, he must go unload that beer whilst fully illuminated in the high beams of his own truck. And we get to watch. You can already tell this is going to be a winner.Suddenly the electricals in his truck start to act up. For the rest of the picture we know that this means the space alien/monster is close by. In this movie, this is what passes for foreshadowing.For no apparent reason, an orb-shaped whatsit crashes in the desert not far from a down-on-its-luck retreat for wayward boys and girls. Nosy hayseed pokes around the impact site too much sees an egg-like object in the open sphere and promptly has himself sucked dry of all of his innards by a space alien/monster. Takes less time than it's taken me to describe it.The alien/monster is overtly biomechanical with a very heavy emphasis on the mechanical part. About the only part that seems to still be biological is the proboscis/sucker that pops out of his chest to suck out your insides.Structurally, the alien/monster looks like a love child between a T1000, a centaur, and Johnny Bravo. Everything is so heavily biased towards the front with 4 little short legs that, physics being honored, it would spend all of its time keeled over on its face. But it can outrun a truck. Uh huh.The only potential reason for its presence, tentatively and halfheartedly put forward by one of the kids whose primary purpose is to be menu items, is that it is here as part of an initial salting operation.At one point in the movie there's a person glued to a cave wall with a baby monster stuck on its chest winding up for dinner. Thank you all the Alien movies.To emphasize how tough the alien/monster is, it rather effortlessly survives a full-size helicopter ride smack into a vertical granite wall 200 feet up with subsequent explosion and freefall to the desert floor. And some more fire. And it just comes out with kind of a sunburn.It finally gets taken out with a pipe bomb. Lucky for us it had that T1000 father. And apparently teenager reprobates make the best ordinance.Really, this movie is formulaic from front to back. You could substitute any given teenage slasher character for the alien/monster and not miss a step. Unexplained, apparently indestructible antagonist kills (and optionally eats) teenage victims one by one until Hero Teenager, Love Interest and Plucky Nerd are all that's left. Then they do that One Magical Thing that stops the antagonist. The End.What really kills this movie is the monster design and bottom-of- the-barrel story. The CGI is actually pretty good for a low-budget film. The acting is adequate and middle-of-the-road with two notable exceptions. The Only Looking out for Myself teenager character does some of the worst acting I've ever seen (but at least he doesn't See the Light just prior to dying). The Teenage Hero character, on the other hand, is actually quite good.Good writing can almost save anything. Bad writing can kill anything for sure.