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Although not boring, it is a piece of majestic crap. The most infantile screenplay ever... embarrassing at times.

Can't understand the IMDB high rating.

Aliens please take me, the humankind is not an intelligent race.

Atrocious score - seriously unbearable and you could not help but notice it. Had that been better, the film would have shown much better.

Terrible screenplay - did anyone re-read this? The concept was interesting but there was just too much unnecessary fluff, plot issues, and pointless scenes.

Bad editing - was it even edited? Had it been/done correctly, they could have cut the many dragged out scenes for the ridiculous 120 min length and made this a bearable 80-90 min film.

The only redeeming qualities were the fairly decent SFX for a 4M low budget film, the cinematography was good, and the acting not bad for C-B-list actors, although they could have been directed better and would have performed better on a better screenplay. Some of the casting was just wrong - e.g. the 5' skinny blonde female army general(?) that couldn't act smh?

I really wanted to like this film but I just couldn't bear the above negative points. I actually had to fast forward past the useless scenes.

What's even worse is the once again 10/10 fake reviews these producers feel can sway the viewers. It's clear they are all fake when you click on the user and see it's their only review. Sad film making. A generous 3/10 from me. Don't waste your time with this one. Can't believe they are in production for a part 2.

I think the movie tried to satisfy everyone, lots of drama stuff, lots of fight/ military stuff, lots of alien interaction, lots of alien empathy stuff, and in the end kind of failed to satisfy any of those lines. For me I would of liked more explanation of the grand strategy of the war. I did not really get the all important key target virus thing, I sort of got it, but more time spent in the military aspect would of done it for me. Less time with all the drama stuff. The baby thing was a little different in how it ends up.

A low budget battle for LA type of movie with all the soap opera drama U get with the typical modern sci fi TV series. If U wish this would be better, then definitely watch --Red Dawn (1984)--

I did not mind watching it, I like sci fi action movies. But like I said, in the end its kind of flat. nice song for the end credits

This had so much potential, big name actors (for Australia), clearly a significant budget but wow what a disaster it was. Bad direction, bad acting, poor continuity. Was really hoping this would be quality as a proud Australian but this movie has set the local industry back years. Such a shame

Why was this movie made, why did my girlfriend ask to see it, why..

Just needed to post a review to make the overall rating a little more honest.

I understand people have different tastes and all that, but this movie really deserves barely a 1 star rating overall. There is NO WAY any honest person could give this a 9 or 10 rating. NO WAY. Borrowed this from another review because is says it so succinctly:

Complete waste of time. The acting was mediocre . The plot , story and message, was a total waste. Worst sci-fi movie that I've seen in years.

Editing this movie down to 60 minutes or so would have maybe brought it up to a 3 star and wasted an hour less of my life.

I have never critique a movie before on IMDB but I felt so emotional about this that I had to.

It's a falling skies rip off even the aliens look like them. Terrible acting, Story continuity everything. I found myself yelling at the screen at the flaws in the story until I realised where I was.

I would tell you where it's bad but I would need pages and pages as nearly every minute is BAD.!! I'm ashamed that this was even produced and filmed in Australia, only good thing it employed a lot of australians, but that's it., we have, as still do better than this in this country. Skip it and see Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010). much better occupation movie. People who gave it ten i suspect are paid reviewers and others that gave it more than 5 are extremely generous.

It's clear the 98 reviews are the directors friends giving this terrible film a 7.4 average. The only reason I gave it 1 star is because I couldn't give it a minus 5. Everything from the plot, script and especially the directing was easily the worst I have ever seen. The only positive I could give is the costume design for the aliens. Please don't waste your hard earned money.

Can't understand all the bad reviews. Although it's a bit corny and illogical at times, I enjoyed every minute of it. It is just a movie after all, and movies are meant to entertain, which it did. I think some people expect too much in a movie.

I laughed until I cried. Then I remembered they were making a sequel and I just cried.

This was pretty good - it was typical Aussie 'stuff 'em!' attitude and that's not a bad thing. There was NO 'America's going to save the world so the rest of you can sit back!' and that made a nice change. There was no one person there as the 'save the day' hero, nor was there the intrinsically evil character.

The acting was pretty good and the story was well done considering it was all really done on a shoestring budget. NOT every film is going to be a hollywood blockbuster, and I'm so grateful for that!

I really enjoy watching this movie. It's just an easy, fun watch. It's not realistic (obviously) and it's not the most profound story you'll ever witness but who ever said it was going to be?

It's an action, scifi set in Australia (for once) and has a great local cast which is one of the main things I love about it. It really is a first of it's kind and if people think bashing it with bad reviews is in any way helpful then I don't know what to think.

I actually liked it a lot more the second time I watched it so if you weren't fussed the first time, it is worth another watch.

Don't take it too seriously and don't sweat the small discrepancies. As I said, it's a fun movie to watch if you just let it be.

And the practical effects are great too!

Aliens invade Australia and interrupt some kind of weird version of rugby with what are the coolest scenes in the movie as the crowd wonder what this firework display is and of course film it on their phones rather than running like Hell. Nobody seems that concerned that aliens are invading the Earth they run but don't act particularly frightened by the turn of events. The acting is some level below bad!

After that it's all downhill as the cast act out various scenes from Red Dawn and take the fight to aliens who have a lot of trouble hitting anyone with their superior weaponry. The humans are better shots with these weapons than the aliens.

When not in their armour the aliens, for no sensible reason, wear rather nifty cloaks. Possibly to keep their wallets or their glasses in, possibly in some kind of homage to Clint Eastwood. We never find out.

We have the usual cliched group of people and they form themselves into The Wolverines and the resistance in the woods that inspire the country's military. Red Dawn 1984 plays a major part in this movie. Except Red Dawn 1984 was good and this isn't.

The film benefits from not having the US Army saving the day and it gets #1 for that but as alien invasions go this has got to be among the worst.

Even more laughable than Alienate although without plastic ray guns and silly hats.

Honestly BAD does not even begin to get to the nub of this 2hour bore-fest.

This is my very first review, simply because this movie is bad and on IMDb it is seen as okay with an 6.6 average. The movie is simply not worth that 6.6 if you go deeper into the demographics you can also see huge spikes around the high grades.. It is not fair, do we really need to rely on metacritics because people abuse a system?

If you look at their reviews by the way.. All proud to rival hollywood in terms of sci fi because of the budget, does that mean the whole movie diserves a 8/10? Is the COMPLETE package there?! Or are they just making a "statement" while people expect an enjoyable film they see this crap? It is not fair to be honest.

Music - one guy with keyboards, plot - worthy of a sequel of a bad movie, acting - below average, stereotypes and clichess - ALL there. Waste of time, unless you are high. I didnt know its australian, by the amount of patriotism it feels like a pure American proud-to-be film.

I have just watched Extinction before this - compared to this thats an amazing movie.

Oh and the aliens wear capes :)

2 hours of my life I will never recover. I can't believe how poor the editing ,acting, storyline, and continuity was. 30 years involvement in the movie industry and I can not remember a worse movie.

God awful plot and acting. Australian film industry should not promote this piece of garbage. Story line was poor from the start and I'm afraid to say it just.got.worse.

So many quotes from other movies that just made this film cheesy and a total waste of resources. There are scenes similar to other movies soit's a bit of a poor man's movie mash up. Could go down as a classic crap flick. Time will tell.

To help get through this movie, I decided to write a review. It is awful. I just passed the part with the drawn out Hollywood Birthing Scene. Fifteen minutes of bloodcurdling screaming and panting. I guess it was that actress' 15 minutes of fame.

I know it's only a B movie, but come on. Even for a B movie, it's bad. The screenplay is dumb. The sound effects are terrible.The dialogue is stupid.The plot is a boring mishmash of 1000 alien invasion movies before it -- Aliens invade earth. They fight. Can you guess how it will end?

This movie has absolutely no redeeming qualities. There are no interesting moments. If you want to see a bad movie that's actually funny, I recommend Tommy Wazoo's "The Room." The Room was even a labor of love.Tommy Oiseau put his heart into, and even though it was amateurish, it was enjoyable.

Anyway, avoid Occupation 2018. It looks like some crap some crappy producer slapped together one weekend because he had some time and money to burn.

Occupation tells a story that is cut together across almost a years worth of action and tells the tale from the first invasion to the first major success of the war.

I enjoyed it, and a big thumbs up to the Australian film industry. The acting and direction is great.

The script covers many months of activity and reveals the personality of characters at quite a pace. The backstories are raced through so you only get a small background about them which needs to carry the characters personlaity behaviour that drives their actions through the movie and you don't quite get to feel immersed into the conflicts of characters as much as could have been the case.

I think this story line alone could have been turned into a successful TV series of at least 4 or more seasons. This would allow each character's backstory to grow and allow the audience to be captured by the potential depth of light and dark sides of each character. There is plenty of story line in between everything you see in the movie. As a TV series, I would have certainly watched it.

Good movie, that could be a great TV series.

Sat in the movie staring at my mates like what an earth is this movie. Is there some kind of super satire I don't understand? Throughout the course of the movie I held in laughs constantly at the hamfisted cliche smash that was the entire movie. However I do truly feel sorry for the actors as I truly believe they all were awesome. They did their best with the awful script they were given and I felt bad for them throughout the entire movie. I hope people can see through how awful this movie is and give these actors a better script please.

Re-watched this today after seeing the sequel this morning and enjoyed it more the second time round.

Honestly, going into this movie I was already a big fan of this genre of film. The plot of this movie is like a few others but that doesn't damper it's majestic glow one bit. I thought it was brilliant to shoot this with an Aussie cast and in Australia because it adds more perspective on a world view and more dynamic to the plot. Plus, let's be real, the Australian accent is just fantastic. I thought the acting was actually fairly decent and even though the effects weren't "Hollywood" they definitely didn't disappoint. One of the only downsides was that the movie had what we like to call the "Stormtrooper" effect. Lots of shooting, not many hits but that's okay in this film because it helped draw out the action sequences. All in all, when all was said and done, I would probably watch this movie a second time. Give it a shot!

The first twenty minutes you get a setup with most of the famous actors from down under, so you think this might be good. Then it begins and you see special effects from the 1980's. I don't mind low budget Sci-Fi - there are some real gems out there - but any decent director could use a wide array of tricks to get around that. Alas this was just painful. The actors and the FX team did their best but this movie slides from would be Hollywood, to Doctor Who TV show, to film school project in less than 30 minutes. I tried to enjoy the story but it makes no sense. I highly doubt if the writers have ever read any book about science or warfare. The characters are clichés and you never really care about them. The film's high point scenes are cheesier than "Pearl Harbor" and "The Patriot" combined. Nearly 80% of the movie is shot on one location and again the director fails to compensate for it . The list goes on and on. Easily one of the ten worst movies I've ever seen. Normally I would just rate this and move on, but when I read the reviews here I simply had to act. Only way you can enjoy these 2 hours is with a group of friends and a drinking game.

Bad script, bad acting, bad music,bad ! Sorry, try harder!