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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Fiery aliens land on Earth from the Sun, intent on causing havoc and destruction. About the only positive thing that I can say about this low budget, made for TV movie is that the acting was reasonable. Everything else - the ridiculous plot, rubbish special effects, etc - make for a very poor viewing experience and several times towards the end found myself nodding off. Did rewind the end to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I hadn't.

Sometimes I enjoy a low budget science fiction film like this, mindless fun. Interesting that Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager is in this film, it took me a minute to figure out it was him as he looks a little older and has gained some weight. There is a really cute news crew camera lady that gets killed off in the film, could not find her name in the cast list. I read the main review but disagree as this is not a big budget film and I don't expect to great special affects and great acting, but I enjoy seeing minor B level actors sometimes. I saw the film today in Thailand on my cable TV Syfy Universal Channel. So if you just want to relax and watch a fun film and see some rookie actors with some seasoned B level actors, this is worth a look.

The plot of FIRE SERPENT is somewhat intriguing - alien creatures emerge from the Sun and attack Earth . You could easily see this plot being used by a Hollywood studio where a couple of A list actors and actresses battle demonic creatures from Hell with the future of civilization at stake . Certainly it sounds like a very easy to market . Sadly the pitch was made to the sci-fi channel and not a major Hollywood executive From the outset we're shown that there's aliens involved but the characters don't realise this which means the narrative is very sluggish . If you're writing a script make sure the audience are as knowledgeable characters in the story or don't construct the story as a mystery . because it quickly becomes tedious when the characters are trying to unravel the causes of mysterious fire deaths while the audience knows whats happening The writers also fail to keep things tightly plotted with a few too many characters and subplots . There's some callous FBI spooks on the case along with a TV crew , not to mention the religious fanatic and a friendly sheriff . There's plot conveniences of the fire monster burning down a house but no one being around to see it . Why did the monster burn down the house ? Ask the writers because there's on screen explanation as to why That said the film could have been saved somewhat if they been impressive production values . A story like this would have greatly benefited from a big budget that would have included atmospheric night sequences . Sadly however it's made for the Sci-Fi channel which means all the sequences are shot in daylight and all the special effects are very obviously created with CGI

This was absolutely awful but unfortunately I've seen worse. At least the production value is good (It doesn't look like someone shooting their first film with a camcorder). The basic story had possibilities but it went nowhere. It was just cheesy and a waste of time but considering that William Shatner wrote and produced this what do you expect but cheese. The major test of this is that I walked out of the room when it was playing and didn't care if I missed any of it. The only good thing about this was seeing Randolph Mantooth in something other than a soap but even he couldn't save this turkey. All I've seen Robert Beltran and Nicholas Brendon in since their series have ended has been really bad TV or straight to video movies. I should have known this would be bad but I keep hoping for something decent.