The Aliens

2016

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6.2| 0h30m| TV-MA| en| More Info
Released: 08 March 2016 Canceled
Producted By: Clerkenwell Films
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-aliens
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Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one.

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TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film
Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Paul Evans Firstly I'll start off by saying anything that Michael Socha does is worth watching, very talented, be it being human, This is England or Silent Witness. Nice to see him play a different kind of character in this, almost the unwilling hero, behaving against type.As for the show itself, it's wonderfully quirky, as a huge fan of District 9, it comes as no surprise that I love the premise of the show, but the realisation of it is rather good too. Sensible to have the Aliens looking like us, saves on effects, and adds for some interesting plots. Very well made considering the obscurity of its transmission.They realised the divide between humans and Morks really well, that whole border control setup and fur drug use, so clever and original.It's punchy, funny, leaving you wanting more, and personally I hope we get more. Special mention for Jim Howick, he was fantastic throughout.
Luminosus Fenestram I couldn't stomach this past the first few minutes. It's just not right to produce such biased TV, using license payer's money towards something that blatantly disregards many viewers' preferences politically. A very clearly pushed agenda shown in this series, to the point of being laughable; if people have to push an agenda this hard, there's got to be something wrong with it. I go to the TV to switch off, not to have politics forced at me, especially politics that are against my own preference.I'd noticed it because Michael Socha was in it, and I'd enjoyed watching him in the Alice in Wonderland series. What a shame he was in this; I'd not have thought he was that desperate for work, tbh, and no actor or actress is taking good advice when they come down hard in one political camp.
Reservoir Dogs there is no need of aliens theme, anyways they are human 1No aliens technology at all, so if you are searching for special effect, you're watching the wrong movie, no effect at all!They live in a ghetto ... seriously, they are supposed to crossed the galaxy, and they are just a band of theft and drug dealer ?? again no aliens needed.So at the end it's just a common police investigation TV show series, where the aliens are ... not aliens and do not have any "alien" technology and live in a ghettoHummmm ... that's all!
Martin Hush Just a warning: This is my opinion. It needn't affect yours if you liked it.From the first episode, (I'll update this review by the time I've watched a few more) this show is a tonal mess. I can see why E4 had to go with describing this as a drama rather than a comedy - hiding that in the episode description - as not a single line of dialogue drew a smile on my face. Throughout the whole thing, throwaway 'gags' were spat out, including how the aliens' hair could be used as a drug, and how aliens took dishwasher tablets to get their high. Maybe this would have been funny if the same 'joke' hadn't been used forty or so times (hyperbole) in one 45 minute run-time. I'm sure the lead (Michael Socha) is a great actor, but in this, he just shifts his eyebrows around, expects us to get meaning from his sarcasm and uninspired dialogue/story arc and to me, just didn't sell his character as likable to the audience. Stuff just happened to him, and even if it was acted well at points, it never made me sympathise with his character. Everything on the screen just happened, there was hardly a cohesive plot (e.g. the car salesman scene that went on for far too long with 'comically' useless thugs not recognising the lead wearing only glasses for disguise) and scenes just followed one another with no real consequence.I know Jim Howick's work from Babylon and Horrible Histories and in both, he is far more amusing than the twelve or so lines of 'witty' dialogue he's given in the first episode of this show. His whole sub-plot is based around him making confusing advances on the lead character, which are some of the most excruciating dull, boring and flat scenes of television I've sat through in a while. As a show that is seemingly trying to convey a message about bigotry (although that seems to be both overplayed and not at all there), to have this strange sub-plot that basically returns to "oh look, this gay guy is hitting on this straight guy, isn't that funny and also creepy and funny, ha ha, laugh at this, you know it's funny." (<-- read this in a sarcastic tone) as a punchline - as that is the punchline, no other joke, nothing funny, not a single laugh or smirk, it just seemed very depressing that something like this can get such amazing reviews from newspapers when the show I watched was a real cluttered splatter of non-humorous scenes followed by badly written dialogue.I really wish they wouldn't call this "2016's Humans" because that show was marvelous, creepy, funny at times and consistent in tone whereas this show is a mess. As I said earlier, I'll update this if anything about the show changes, but as so far, I really am not impressed.

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