![]() ![]() Perks include Keith David as a tough soldier, Yaphet Kotto as a general, Will Patton as a helpful science-guy and Law and Order’s Richard Belzer as a possessed flunky. Sam is an early victim, but his father manages to remove the creature it’s soon discovered that the invasion is not of many creatures, but one singular organism with super-fast reproductive abilities and the ability to swamp humankind within days if not stopped fast. They find the area overrun with nasty parasitical symbiotes that swiftly attach themselves to the spinal cords of their human victims, taking over the local cops, military and spreading across the community like a virus. Together with his son Sam (Erik Thal), Nivens travels to Iowa to investigate reports of a flying saucer, bringing along NASA expert Mary Sefton (Julie Warner) for additional insight. In an souped-up X Files-type scenario, a freshly laundered Donald Sutherland plays Andre Nivens, the head of a secret CIA body entrusted to stand between us and potential alien invasions. Dispensing with the futuristic dystopian setting of the book, it’s a rather muddled film, but does have enough striking moments to make it worth exhuming for genre fans. The satirical thrust of 1997’s Starship Troopers is always a pleasure, but a few years earlier, there was a decent attempt to film his 1951 novel The Puppet Masters. ![]() ![]() The wholesome Disney + might seem like an odd place to do it, but I’ve been catching up on the cinematic adaptations of the work of Robert A Heinlein. ![]()
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