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ridiculous rating

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

A fighter pilot is shot down. Decades later, his son is military himself, and has a daughter. The girl is kidnapped for scientific reasons, and it's up to Madsen(who squints and badasses his way through this… it's hilarious to see him act completely cool and smooth even in the face of contact with extraterrestrials) and an alien who has kept a watch on the family(and chooses to come to us in the form of a *really* hot chick, with amazing legs, in tight silver latex… and even though she doesn't stay in that for all that long, we straight men of Earth thank her and her kind a lot for that) to get her back. This has pretty reasonable performances, and other than Michael, we also get R. Lee Ermey being his usual self(and when is that ever a negative?) and Robert Vaughn appears in a role that is important, if not afforded an awful lot of screen-time. The film is basically an action flick with some sci-fi aspects, and as far as that goes, it's decent. We get chases, particularly vehicular ones(several cars go flying in this), shootouts and occasional physical fighting. This is quite funny a couple of times, and we are surprisingly mostly spared the "what, you mean something here, in this place that I'm not familiar with, is different from what I'm used to" punchlines. It's 91 minutes sans credits, and it's somewhat entertaining. The FX are OK. Actually, they're better than in other of these low-budget ones… but let's return to The Sender(sorry, it was too good, had to do it). There is violence and disturbing content in this. I recommend this to fans of the genre, as long as you don't expect too much, and accept it for what it is. 6/10

I just have to say this: The worst thing about this movie was Michael Madsen acting. Does this guy even have any expressions? During the entire movie the feeling I got from him was "yeah, so?".Never excited, never raises his voice, never acts like any more than a cardboard cutout. The movie would have been a lot better if he wasn't in it.Overall, this movie wasn't quite as bad as some of the others would have you believe. I had just bought 4 stinkers to watch during the weekend (I like watching bad movies). This movie was the best of the lot (which tells you how bad the other movies were).In this movie, aliens can travel anywhere because their females have a "sender gene". They had made sure that over the years no humans with this gene were allowed to continue on, although they never explain exactly how that was accomplished. Enter Michael Madsen's character and his daughter, who of course has the gene. The government wants her, and the aliens are trying to strengthen her gift because they accidentally killed her grandfather. The hottie alien in this case has gotten to know humans and now believes they aren't as bad as previously thought.So, we have (too many) gun battles where Michael Madsen likes to hold his gun sideways like an idiot "gangsta" or something. They never run out of ammo (hey, isn't that so last century?). Of course, no one but the heroes ever hit anything even though they are up against soldiers with M16s. Speaking of soldiers, they should have gotten them uniforms that fit. They looked pretty dumb. Also too many car chases where our heroes always get away.This could have been a good movie. There were some good actors in it, and overall the acting was OK (except for Michael Madsen).Also, they should have gotten rid of the bleached blond black guy with the one earring who was supposed to be in charge. He was a horrible actor, and his "look" didn't fit the part at all. He looked like he should be dressing the performers back stage at a theatrical stage show.The best actor in the movie (and I guess he's a bit of a character actor) was R. Lee Ermey as the bad ass Colonel Rosewater, but I've never seen him be bad at any part he's played.Got nothing to do? Bored? Only movie in the $3 bin you haven't seen? Buy it and watch it once. Better than nothing.

THE SENDER is a rather entertaining sci-fi "B" movie that manages to pass the time, albeit its far from being a masterpiece, its a film produced by Richard Pepin and Joseph Merhi who are known for creating films with paper thin plots but have loads of car chases and shootings, however many of their films are pretty entertaining such as RIOT for instance.The plot here as you might expect is also paper thin only this one has a bit of a Sci-Fi spin to it, the acting isn't perfect but Micheal Madsen, R. Lee Emery and Steven Williams were fun to watch, the action scenes consist of car chases and shootings plus it features a spaceship being chased by two gunships.Overall, its an entertaining "B" movie that passes the time but if you're already familiar with the work of Pepin and Merhi you might notice the usual trademarks in this one.

I am fortunate to own this movie. It happened years ago, I bought the first "Iron Eagle" on VHS, second hand. Got back home, put the tape in the player and... What the?! This is not "Iron Eagle"! Someone misplaced the tapes. Huh, at least this is with airplanes too. WOW! UFO! Yup, that was my reaction at that time. Watched the whole movie and pretty much enjoyed it. I find it highly underrated, that's why I'm giving it 10. Objectively it is 5.5/6. It's not like great, but it is surprisingly good and unknown. Give it a try if you have the chance. I've seen Richard Pepin's work, "Cyber Tracker" 1 and two were like hits in the local video rent store when I was a kid, and I think I've also seen "Dark Breed" and "The Silencers" (can't tell for sure, because if I've seen them they were in Bulgarian and I don't remember the translation of the titles, but the covers look quite familiar). Michael Madsen fans just have to watch this one.