Sunday, October 18, 2015

I must be filling in the sequel gaps...

Xtro 2: The Second Encounter


     What we have here is a movie that was filmed in Canada, financed by Britain, and based in the US. It takes place in a soooper secret underground facility that's working on inter-dimensional travel. Three poor souls dressed in Vader-like outfits are sent through the portal and then things go wrong. Only one comes back and she's brought a friend hiding in her abdomen--->and it likes to eat people! In the meantime, the only person in the world that can help is Jan Michael Vincent. His back-story is that he was one of the first to go through the portal in a Texas facility, and upon coming back, blew up the facility in order to kill the monster that followed him back through the portal.

     Picking apart this film is too easy, though I'd like to point out that when the monster first bursts out of her chest, nobody uses gloves or hazmat suits when examining her, the room she's in, the trail of material the creature left behind....touch everything, don't use gloves, freely breath in the air . Again...microbiology safeguards are completely ignored.

     Really, this has nothing to do with the first movie. It's a sequel in name only and the monster doesn't even look like the creature from the original. The acting is f-ing terrible and I'm betting the auditions were done on a Sunday morning. The story is just a weak Doom-faclity run through typical of a '90s low budget film. This is what you get when Jan Michael Vincent is your star. It's bad enough, that nobody wants to do a proper Wikipedia entry. I can't blame them. I'll most likely forget I ever saw this film.

Oh, one last note: At no point is the name or word "Xtro" used in either of the films. There's a 3rd, but I'm not touching that this year.

Monday: His name is Milo, and he's baaaaad.





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