a-twetman Review of Alien from L.A.

Alien from L.A. (1988)

A B-movie that B-movie lovers will struggle to like.

[4/10 · 11 November 2011]

I have set myself the task of seeing all the films on IMDBs bottom 100 as a kind of pet project and I was positively surprised when I got to number 97 (starting at #100). Alien from L.A is not so much a bad film as a mediocre one. It is like one of those B-movie adventure films with a lot of clichés, low budget special effects, cheesy dialog and poorly choreographed action scenes. I you don't take them seriously, and try to see the humor in them instead, those films can actually be entertaining, if a bit pointless. I found myself wanting to like this one but struggling. The crazy underground world full of strange visuals, where our protagonist - a geeky girl with an annoyingly squeaky voice - goes on lots of pointless little adventures is a bit too much for me. Alien from L.A. gets a 4 out of 10 for effort but falls a bit short of actually being lovable.