Threshold
Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.
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- Cast:
- Nicholas Lea , Jamie Luner , Steve Bacic , David Lipper , Teryl Rothery , Karl Pruner , Anthony Sherwood
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Awesome Movie
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
An astronaut being the carrier of alien insect seeds returns to earth and spawns a bunch of hostile moths, thus spreading the infection. The moths need human hosts to complete their evolution and... yada yada, we've heard it all before. The often ridiculed SyFy Channel - before their name-change, actually – produced this lamentable alien invasion TV-effort, resulting in a highly uninspired mess of straight-faced, cliché-driven shenanigans. Nicholas Lea and Jamie Luner run around earning their paycheck as the scientist duo figuring out ways to save mankind. Nothing remotely interesting is done with the material, and Charles Bowman's utterly bland directing is smudged by cheap cinematography and some generic CGI effects. Remind me again why I watched this?
Try to stay with this TV movie and you may drive yourself crazy. THRESHOLD stars Nicolas "X-Files" Lea as a scientist trying to stop an alien infestation from taking over the world. If he doesn't stop the moth-like aliens in 48 hours, the city he is rushing around in will be nuked to stop the plague from spreading. Lea is not believable as any kind of scientist, and the cast otherwise is unmemorable and generic. The only thing that saves this thing from being a "1" are some yucky scenes of alien transference that strongly resemble similar scenes in the much-beloved THE HIDDEN. The creatures have interesting claws, too, that pop out at regular intervals.
excellent concept with serviceable special effects. insects from outer space that use us for food and hosts for their offspring. watching it, i was left feeling that many opportunities for good gratuitous gore were left out. plus, it had the same "surprise" ending so many of these sci-fi movies have. nicholas lea was surprisingly good in a non-x-files-but-somewhat-x-files leading role.
There's nothing much to discuss. This starts out okay, for about ten minutes, and then proceeds to get worse moment by moment. An astronaut in space is hit by small "meteorites" that turn out to be of alien insect origin and upon returning to Earth, they leave this man alone in a regular hospital with the window open. No quarantine, no security, no special attention at all. Then, two of three people who know that this is an alien life form that has not only killed the astronaut, but has also escaped through the open window, then proceed to go kayaking and biking. And this is just the beginning of the illogical parts. However, the most annoying & mystifying aspect of this is that the interesting and talented Nicholas Lea can't get better parts than this. I don't get it. Everyone I know was impressed and/or intrigued with him in The X-Files, but he never capitalized on it. What a shame.