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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

In 1983, the people of Earth were going about their normal business when a fleet of 50 ships came from another planet and scared everyone! Michael Donovan (Marc Singer) a cameraman and his companion Tony Leonetti (Evan Kim) were filming the war in El Salvador when one of the alien ships floated by. Julie Parrish (Faye Grant) a young med student and Ben Taylor (Richard Lawson) were doing research on an antibiotic in the lab when the TV came on to announce the arrival. The Bernsteins, a nice Jewish family and the Maxwells, a Christian family were also going about daily life when the ships came. Robin Maxwell (Blair Tefkin) and Daniel Bernstein (David Packer) talked about how life would change for them and the earth with the aliens. Robin feared she would never lose her virginity because she thought the aliens were enemies. Polly (Vivika Davis) Robin's younger sister brought them into the house and they watched as the alien leader John (Richard Herd) came out of a fighter ship and told all the Earthlings the aliens came in peace. The aliens would help out the Earth with environmental problems and other issues if the inhabitants would help them by gathering chemicals and food the aliens would need. Julie, Donovan, and Abraham Bernstein (Leo Cimino) are unsure about this while the other humans embrace these alien saviors. Soon things begin to go downhill. Scientists are targeted as the ones who want to get rid of the aliens and there is a made up conspiracy that involves Julie, Ben, and anthropologist Robert Maxwell (Michael Durrell) the father of Robin, Polly, and little Katie. Polly is beat up at school because she wins the science fair and her mom Kathleen (Penny Windust) and Abraham come to her aid. Ruby a neighbor widow (Camilla Ashland) tells Abraham not to worry and it will pass. Abraham said he believed that in 1938 in Berlin and the Nazi trouble didn't pass and this led to the death of Abraham's wife. It doesn't help the Visitors have uniforms, guns, a symbol that resembles a swastika and Daniel has joined the Visitor Friends and wears a brown uniform like the Nazi sympathizers did! Mike Donovan's mom also becomes a sympathizer for the aliens too and so does his ex-girlfriend Christine Walsh. One night, Mike and Tony sneak aboard the ship but while following Mike, Tony trips and Mike enters the ship all alone with his camera. He sees alien scientist Diana (Jane Badler) talking to alien Steven (Andrew Prine) about the conversion process she invented to turn some of the scientists to the Visitor cause and then Steven reaches into a cage and grabs a white mouse he swallows down in one gulp! Diana goes one-up on Steven and swallows a live guinea pig whole! This explains why at a party Steven attended with the Maxwells his aversion to cooked foods and the fact when he walked by a cage of lovebirds, the birds crashed and moved around in panic! Steven's hands also feel cold to Robert too! In another room, an alien man is doing something to his eyes and it looks to Mike like he is removing or inserting contacts. Soon the eyes are revealed to be red with black slits! Mike rips off the man's mask and the big reveal is the Visitors are alien reptiles! Later on Martin (Frank Ashmore) shows Mike the captured humans in cocoons. All of them are unconscious and for some reason one of the kids is hanging upside down in a cocoon. These people will be used as cannon fodder and food. Another bad thing the Visitors are doing is stealing the water, but taking people and knocking them out to be used as food seems worse! "V" is an excellent, creepy retelling of the rise of the Nazi Party. Instead of human Nazis persecuting human Jews, there are aliens persecuting doctors and other humans! The Visitors snacking on live animals like we do on cookies is startling to say the least! All of the actors are excellent and I like this version of "V" much better than the 2009 version by a long shot!

Other then small differences like the V's being aliens the way they assimilated power and conquered the earth is very similar to how the Nazi's took power of Germany in the 1930's.The V's like the Nazi's had a charismatic leader, brainwashing and propaganda in the media. Even the uniforms of the V soldiers is very similar to the storm trooper soldiers of the Nazi and they use the same Red and Black colors.Same way that the Nazi's used hope for the future to help influence the population the V's used a cure for things like cancer and other ailments. Early terrorist attacks on the V's were blamed on scientists in the same manner that the Nazi's did the same to communists. This miniseries shows society can be swayed by easy answers and charisma.

I remember when this TV Mini-Series came out I was 12 years old, and was totally blown away. I still think this is the best TV Mini-Series ever, yes Kenneth Johnson didn't have the budget George Lucas had; but considering I still thought the special effects ROCKED. I think disguising the aliens as lizard people was awesome, compared to all the other sci-fi movies done prior; we never had aliens as lizards.The concept of aliens coming to Earth wanting to be our friends and sharing their knowledge with us, probably was a ratings hit right there. I was so into the mini-series I was glued, along with my friends and parents to the TV for three nights. The plot really heated up when Mike Donovan found out their true identity; and the real reason why they where here in the first place. The action in the film was great Donovan sneaking on board the Mothership, seeing them for what they were. The Visitor's, reptiles, who eat rodents; and who have a secret agenda for us to use us as food, train some of us as soldiers for their military and to take our water. With the help of Mike Donovan, Julie Parish, and other's we had other plans, start a resistance group with the help of the Visitor's 5th column on our side; and fight back. This movie is a classic and V-The Final Battle is a terrific follow up. These miniseries are still at the top of my list and I recommend them to anyone who likes good movies. Thanks, Kris L. CocKayne

Talk about your close encounters. In "V", Earth gets a visit of a strange round mother-ship hovering different cities, countries, just all over the world. Then this small ship comes out and and the alien occupants speak for the first time. They look like us, talk like us, consider them "Our Friends". However, when Michael Donovan(Marc Singer) sneaks aboard the shuttle to go inside the mother-ship, a deep, dark, sinister secret lies beneath the skin of the "Visitors". They are reptilians humanoids out to replenish their home planet. With that out, people began to resist the "Visitors". Yet, some of them are "turncoats". They come for a peaceful existence, not follow the tyrannical ways of their leader Diana(Jane Badler). So that's the backup the resistance ever needed, "Turncoat Visitors". They get immunization from the "Red Dust", while the others get blitzed. "The Visitors" are like "Alien Nazis", only a few of them would help the humans resist their rule. Great, fun movie, I'm glad they did a series later on! 3 out of 5 stars!