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Battlefield 2025
USA 2020
produced by Robert Conway, Amber Thompson, Joseph Mbah for FunHouse Features, Paradox Universe, Triple G Production
directed by Joseph Mbah
starring Jose Rosete, Anna Harr, Dustin Leighton, Caleb Thomas, Alaina Laethem, Adam Michael Gold, Titus Covington, Sean Dillingham, Santiago Craig, Becky Jo Harris, Nathaniel Burns, Brandon Hannifin, Rene Barraza jr, Cathy Rankin, Richard Lippert, Andrew Funk, Jamie Baxter, Eric Lettman, Patrick Lick, Charlie Motley, Michael Harrelson, Owen Conway, William 'Bill' ConnorNoah Layne (as Noah Clark), Shannyn Lambert (as Shannyn Hall), Sarah Ludington (as Sarah Wilson), Jeffrey Aguilar jr, Juliet Rose Serrato, Robert Conway sr, Lisa Hunt, Solomon E. Carranza
written by Robert Conway, Joseph Mbah, music by Joseph Mbah, special effects by Marcus Koch, alien costume by Kodiak Darling
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Teenaged Allie (Anna Harr) is on a camping trip with her sister Rose
(Alaina Laethem), Rose's boyfriend Ethan (Adam Michael Gold), and a friend
from school, Dylan (Caleb Thomas), and it seems at first that on this trip
she has but two problems, first being getting out of too much hiking, and
secondly convincing Dylan that she likes him as just a friend, nothing
more. At the same time and roughly in the same area, two convicts, Jake
(Dustin Leighton) and Ronnie (Santiago Craig) have escaped custody, but
Ronnie got shot during the breakout, and now Jake's looking for some help
- and thus he stumbles upon Allie and company, who really do their best to
help, not knowing they're helping two escapees, but still Ronnie dies, and
when cop Matt (Jose Rosete) crosses their path, Jake shows his true
colours, ties everybody up, steals their food - and this is where the real
trouble starts for everybody, as nearby an alien spaceship has
crashlanded, and the pilot is very pissed and adamant to take out everyone
who crosses his path. And suddenly, Allie and friends, Matt and Jake must
bury the hatchet to fight the common enemy - but that's much easier said
than done ... Battlefield 2025 might not be the
reinvention of science fiction cinema, but it does what it has set out to
do very well, and that's telling a tense alien invasion story, enriching
it with both thriller and slasher elements and playing with genre tropes
well-known since the 1950s but used in an entertaining way. And some
nicely gruesome scenes, a cool-looking alien, and a solid ensemble just
help to keep one interested in this one till the punchline - which is
really worth watching for its own sake.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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