OCCUPATION is another alien invasion flick, this time hailing from Australia. The cast is undistinguished apart from old timer Temuera Morrison, who probably deserves better. A bunch of characters are going about their ordinary (read: mundane) lives when a bunch of armoured humanoid aliens invade and blow everything up and shoot people. The survivors regroup in the woods before engaging in a low rent fight back. The one decent thing here is the calibre of the special effects, better than they have any right to be, but the trite, soap opera-style script really lets it down.

Aliens try to take over the world but meet the "Red Dawn" type of resistance in rural Australia. The film gives us some background on a group of individuals who are not compatible but somehow come together to fight the invading aliens, just as Reagan would want. (Seriously they open with a Reagan speech on the advantages of invading aliens.)

This is a low budget Aussie "Independence Day" with a female colonel giving a very poor "save the world" speech. I didn't think the characters were that great. No Will Smith, Randy Quaid, or Patrick Swayze.

Guide: f-word. Brief sex. no nudity.

I've watched a ton of bad movies lately. Not just bad, horrendous. Here are some with the rating out of 10 stars:

come true 1 the midnight sky 1 what lies below 1 hunter hunter 2 psycho goreman 2 archenemy 1 let him go 2 girl (2020) 1 the rental 2 vanguard 2 fatman 2

why am i giving you this list? Because i finished all of those movies. With occupation, i quit after an hour and 23 minutes. I really hate quitting movies. If anything, i'll watch them on faster speed. But i did not care about anything. I was zero invested in the story or any of the characters.

The action added nothing to the movie. And the acting was so bland and stilted. Their reactions to an all-out alien invasion was similar to what you would see from someone in a minor car accident (1 viewing, 6/20/2021)