Alien Agent Movie
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Only one man stands in the way of an alien invasion... And he's not even human.
Rykker is an intergalactic warrior trapped on Earth, destined to fight a gang of ruthless aliens known as The Syndicate. The syndicate is an alien fifth column plotting to take over the world. The film opens with a spectacular highway chase, as Rykker liquidates several syndicate agents. Saylon is a top syndicate leader who comes from outer space and crash-lands on Earth. His mission to build a wormhole link between Earth and the alien planet - a portal - making possible a full-scale invasion of the Earth. Isis is the sexy and ruthless leader of the syndicate on Earth. While launching a robbery spree to steal the spare parts necessary to build the portal, Isis becomes hell bent on destroying Rykker and clearing the way for Saylon's master plan. Julie is a fifteen year old who's family is murdered During the hijacking of a truck carrying material for the portal. Julie left totally alone in the world, Seeks vengeance on the killers. Rykker also seeks to find them. He must stop them before they complete the portal and flood the world with alien scum. Julie and Rykker are thrown together by tragic circumstance. They hook up - actually, she follows him against his will; he tries and tries to ditch her, but she keeps popping up, even saving his life at one point - and embark on a cross country journey, with Isis and an army of syndicate killers in hot pursuit. The final showdown, inside a nuclear reactor, is a balls to the wall action climax, as Rykker and Julie battle Isis, Saylon and their army of killers, and try to prevent the portal from opening a rein of destruction upon Earth.
| Mark Dacascos | Rykker |
| Emma Lahana | Julie |
| Billy Zane | |
| Kim Coates | Roderick |
| Luke Darnell | Guard |
| Rob Hayter | Deputy Sheriff |
| Sean O. Roberts | Jerry |
| Darren Shahlavi | Kaylor |
| John Tench | C.C. |
| Dominiquie Vandenberg | Sartek |
| Amelia Cooke | Isis |
| Lindsay Maxwell | Monica |
| Kelsey McIlroy | Little girl at cafe |
| Jesse Johnson |
7.90 out of 10 (11 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A good sci-fi movie, without big Hollywood special effects
posted on 11 Jun 2009Alient Agent sits somewhere between a good B grade and an average A grade movie.The story goes as follows: An ancient, highly evolved alien race are searching for a new home planet. Being both intelligent and highly evolved they have made a decree not to settle any inhabited planets, which is good for us as Earth is only one of two planets that they have a hope of settling before their race dies out.Defying the decree, a rebel faction on the alien home planet attempt to invade earth. They send in scouts (via some kind of heavenly projectiles) who have the ability to reanimate human bodies with their life force (once the human has died of course) thus taking over their humanly appearance and conveniently making all the aliens appear as humans for the duration of the movie.These aliens are stronger than humans and have other neat abilities, like regeneration and psychic awareness, their aim is to build a portal to their own world, enabling them to send in their armies and take over the earth - presumably sending everyone by meteorite is too difficult.All is not lost! Some good guys get wind of the evil factions plans and send their best agent, the 'lone ranger' named Ryker (Mark Dacascos) to stop them.All in all the movie is fairly enjoyable. There are a few inconsistencies, but for the most part its fairly well put together. There are plenty of fight scenes, most of them being fun to watch even if slightly predictable. The one notable exception being marred by poor speed editing - director please note: Mark Dacascos is fast enough! Marc Dacascas plays the lone crusader well and his unlikely sidekick Emma Lahana (Julie) did almost too good a job at times, switching demeanors so fast it was hard to keep up.Its lack of big CGI animations and special effects works in its favor for the most part, the movie seems better for it. In fact some of the worse parts in the movie are when the utterly unconvincing CGI effects are used to heal Ryker (don't worry - there aren't many), I can't help but think it would have been better left to the viewers imagination.I personally wouldn't buy this movie but it would be a good one to watch on TV or rent, especially for sci-fi fans.
Agent Mark
posted on 10 Apr 2009First of all, I think it is way better than "I am Omega", BUT some aspects of the movie let me be disappointed. Well since I am very Martial Arts-oriented I make the short version and comment on those, particularly.... a) first fight: Mark vs Darren Shalhavi ( Yes I know this guy, a very neat Martial Artist, also unheard of guy Here ), the fight after Mark came out of the damaged car.... Yes, one of my personal favorite fights, a very consistent pace by pace choreography. Mark didn't use High kicks, only Close Range Counters, and a sweep at the end. Short, but very acceptable fight scene.b) Mark meeting Isis and her bully partner: Mark fought well against the small fry, good average choreography.... but then seeing Mark struggling against Isis's partner without any Martial Arts move, was a little bit disappointing. Finishing off with a gun shot is way to easy...d) Mark confronting Billy Zane and Isis. well let's get to the ugly part first. Billy Zane's performance was the most pathetic I have ever seen. First he commands Isis to kill off Rykker wimping "Kill him, kill him...." <- the way he said it, was already pathetic. A real main villain would have been more sinister,.... but after Isis obviously couldn't finish Rykker, he then wimped "Okay,... let him watch then..." And after he said "I will return with thousands (of troops)" that's where I started laughing at him... Man, and at the end, Ceylops didn't even return, HAHAAAAA!!!!But now back to my real purpose the Martial Arts fight sequences: Isis vs Mark.... this at least should have been the highlight of the movie,.... but it didn't turn out this way,... AGAIN... Yes, I appreciate that the director let Isis perform some good Martial Arts moves with a Kunai-whip, pretty and good,... but again what about Mark the main actor??? I thought he would at least land 3 or 4 moves, of Punches and Kicks against Isis, and we Martial Arts fans would have been more than happy,... well at least Mark got a hold at Isis's Whip which deserve at least a plus point on my Skala, e) And guess what there was another fight, somewhere on the roof top, against to mercenary aliens ( was it at Rykker's World or not ??? I am not sure ) Well anyhow. This is at least a worthier finish , and we see Mark kicking the hell out of the two bullies. This was a good fight in the end, and it saved my mood.Overall this movie was way better than "I am Omega". It was not the neat Highlight as I had hoped for, but in general it was acceptable with some flaws.... This movie had some good average fights, but also some tiny disappointing ones, and a pathetic Billy Zane... My favorite fights were the one at the beginning and in the end, the one where he fought of those thugs. I must say, it is somehow again a little bit of a shame of how a director can portray a wimpy Villain Leader and didn't use Mark's incredible Martial Arts talent to full potential yet again.
Better than the title suggests
posted on 15 Mar 2009Good B-scifi film with an awful title. The plot has an alien race trying to build a worm hole terminal on earth so they can leave their dying planet and forcibly take over the earth. They only thing stopping them is an single alien who wants revenge. What can I say its turn your brain off time at the old homestead. The best way to describe this is a way better than average SCIFI Channel original film. Its a better than average TV movie that just works with in its limits and goes. Certainly its nothing you haven't seen before but its sense of seriousness makes it worth your time in front of the TV screen. If there is any flaw its the invulnerability the aliens have, it kind of takes the edge off the danger. Still if this had a better title people would be eating this up.
Enough to put you off the art of movie making altogether...
posted on 21 May 2008STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning I've been reviewing films on IMDb for ten years now. I've reviewed well over a thousand. I've seen and reviewed all sorts of films. Some are adaptations of great novels or cult TV shows that were destined to become great films. Some may have been true life stories that had to be made into a film. And others may have been less audacious, and simply been made to be a simple piece of escapist, B movie fun. That seems to have been the case with Alien Agent...but the result couldn't have been worse. Instead, it is a film that leaves one word wondering around in your mind: why? What was the point of it? What inspired a supposedly intelligent movie producer to think there was any chance it would be a big hit, either on the big screen or on DVD? Are there not loads of talented, up and coming young artists crying out for their big break, for whom the budget for this useless excuse for a film could have spring boarded their careers? What is the point of it? Mark Dascascos's career reads like a whole charge sheet of direct to DVD mediocrity, with the occasional supporting appearance in a big studio film that sees the light of day at a cinema screen. I haven't seen most of them, to be honest, and maybe there are some films in that barren landscape of filmic drudgery that would make this codswallop seem like a masterpiece (shudder.) But he's the lead star here, and that ain't great marketing potential to get your film noticed much. Then there's his co star Billy Zane, who just over ten years ago spoke with an elequted British accent in Titanic, the biggest film of all time in scope of scale and budget. While Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's careers have taken off quite grandly, fate has dealt him the unlucky hand and he gets to co star in drivel like this, where he first speaks with a weird American trucker accent before being magically transformed into a more smoothly spoken evil alien type guy.You'll notice I've forgone the traditional plot summary, which is too apathetic to make a fuss about. Some nonsense about an alien race from another planet that have developed a portal to our world to drain our natural resources and eventually enslave our species, which Dacascos's 'alien agent' must try and sort out. I could go on about this, and the atrociously bad acting, and the unbelievably cheap looking special effects (mainly, what appear to be sparkler sprinkles coming from the slain alien invaders) the even shoddier looking sets and the complete lack of any exciting action through out...but frustratingly, this is one of those films where I could tell from the trailer it was going to be rubbish and so, I kind of feel like I only have myself to blame to be honest.Alien Agent is one of those films that just makes you wonder why you even bother watching movies anymore. I know this is more of a rant than I should be wasting on a film of such unimportance but...I just can't figure out why anyone thought this would have appeal to anyone and, if there is, even with such an obviously low budget and B list cast, they made such a p!ss poor job of it. It's such a waste of time and, lets be honest, a waste of emerging talent. NO STARS
Unoriginal and Forgettable B-Movie
posted on 25 Apr 2008When a group of alien agents from a dying planet come to Earth under the leadership of Isis (Amelia Cooke) to build a portal to connect both worlds, the warrior Rykker (Mark Dacascos) opposes and defends the earthlings. He rescues the teenager Julie (Emma Lahana), whose family was murdered by the invaders, and together they try to destroy the portal and avoid the invasion commanded by the cruel Saylon (Billy Zane)."Alien Agent" is an unoriginal and forgettable B-movie, with a terrible screenplay that begins the story like a sequel of a pilot of a TV show. The situations are only motive for car chases, explosions, shootings and stupid fights. The story begins with a car chase when two aliens fire their machine guns against Rykker but never hit the hero; suddenly one of them wisely jumps on Rykker car to struggle against the hero in a ridiculous sequence. The rest of the story follows the low standard. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Invasão" ("The Invasion")
You have to be kidding?
posted on 30 Mar 2008I bought this terrible flick suspecting it was a grade C movie, but might be good for a laugh or two.I was surprised, it was a D movie and full of stupid remarks, forgettable characters, a plot that had an intelligent person written the screen play, might have worked.How such worthless trashy flicks get the bucks to be produced, much less consumed by what must be children and adults with learning disabilities, I don't know.The lack of imagination in how the invaders invade is depressing. They're all humans who have been killed, but somehow their bodies taken over by the invaders. I was unable to waste enough time to see this thing to its end.Other commenters may help here.
Iron Chef, Yellow Power Ranger, and Aliens with Machine Guns!!
posted on 02 Oct 2007A bunch of aliens come to earth looking to colonize the planet (damned aliens!!). A "good alien" played by Mark Dacascos (who is the Chairman on the US version of "Iron Chef") comes to fight them because the good aliens think they can colonize another planet, and that will not involve wiping out all of humanity. But the weapon of choice for these aliens is machine guns... and man, do they love their machine guns! No laser beams for these aliens! The good alien meets up with a girl played by Emma Lahana, the Yellow Power Ranger in the Dino Thunder series, and she is just as cute and hot as ever, even though they gave her the single most ridiculous body double/shower scene in history (it looks like the body double was from another movie!).So, sounds fun? Well, it is. If you're expecting greatness -- or even sense and continuity -- steer clear, but for a fast-paced little sci-fi action flick, you could do a LOT worse.
F-ing aliens want our planet.
posted on 10 Aug 2009In a nutshell so that you don't have to read the rest of my crap if you don't want to: Old story. Aliens are having problems in their world and so they come to ours to bug us or take over, or something. I dunno. So an alien agent is sent to stop them from their diabolical schemes.When not chairing the "Iron Chef" Mark Dacascos. does action B-movies which are, in my opinion, usually better than most B-movies but yet always seem to fall just short of their potential. This one is no exception. All the pieces are there; just needed a little bit more intelligence in the writing and better direction. Case in point: our hero steals a police car and was asked by his companion why he did it. He replied that he wanted to hear the police reports. This was so obviously a lame excuse since the cost of attracting so much attention to himself far outweighed the benefits. Besides, he could simply have used or gotten a scanner of his own (he had a hideout full of crap). More likely the director wanted a car chase and this was his best excuse to get one. In another scene a lot of people were killed for no good reason other than to steal a truck. Why would you do that and draw unwanted attention to yourself? More likely the director needed a mass murder at this juncture and this was his best excuse for one. I wanted to like this movie, and I did "somewhat" (I liked the early scene with the alien chick on the overpass; at that point the movie looked very promising) but there were some inconsistencies that bugged me. In the first fight scene the hero fought very well; expertly. Then there was a later fight scene where he appeared to not know how to fight at all. If the director wanted the bad guy to get the better of him he could have done it without making him look like he forgot how to fight altogether (he basically stood there and took an ass whipping).Dacascos obviously is a talented martial artist. More so than Van Damme or Seagal. And yet -as luck or fate would have it- never achieved even their level of success. Ironic that he's probably better known from a cooking show than from what he does best. Kick ass. Ahh well, life has a sense of humor. All I can say for Alien Agent is that it's better than most B-movies which may or may not be saying much. Why don't you be the judge? Love, Boloxxxi.