Alien Cargo

Starring the less drug addled of the London twins and Australian acting legend Alan Dale this little sci-fi movie is better than you'd likely assume.

It tells the overused concept of folks in "Hyper sleep" during a long journey through space. Two of them awaken only to learn that they should have woken up many months earlier, the crew are eerily missing and for some reason their tempers seem to be flaring.

Truth be told I'm sure I've seen this before, maybe an old Outer Limits episode or something similiar. The concept is bareable and competently enough handled but I couldn't get past the nagging feeling that it was more than slightly recycled.

Building to a less than predictible finale this impressed me, and that's hard to do considering I'm really not a sci-fi guy.

It still does rate just about an average film overall, but I appreciate the effort and it's certainly better than you'd expect it to be.

The Good:

Quite well made

The Bad:

Feels recycled

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

USA turns out to be responsible for every major movie conspiracy