Cheap XTRO 3: Watch The Skies (DVD) (Harry Bromley Davenport) Price

A young Marine officer (Jim Hanks, brother of Tom) is assigned to lead a team of military misfits on a cleanup mission on an island used for internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The team consists of a tough female with an attitude, a big dumb-jock type, a dope-smoking nut case, and a completely out-of-place soldier who has no business in the military. Things seem rather amiss from the start, with the squad given a minimum of information by their rather sinister C.O. Instead of finding the explosives they were sent to defuse, the Marines run afoul of a group of cranky, big-headed aliens who love nothing more than subjecting humans to prolonged torture. The aliens can puke battery acid all over their victims, or snare them with their prehensile tongues; the tough-gal Marine falls victim to an alien spider web. The GIs run across a hermit on the island who somehow has a l6mm projector and films of an alien vivisection conducted in 1955, with the alien's mate watching; hence the extraterrestrials' grudge against humans in general. XTRO 3 has an interesting story line, with its X-Files-like subplot of government cover-up and suppression. However, it's hamstrung by CGI effects that look like relics of the '50s, slim character development, and bad dialogue (the gung-ho Marines actually tell each other, "Semper Fi" more than once). What the movie lacks in budget, however, it makes up for in disgusting gore effects, and the room of obsolete technology (dial telephones, grandfather clocks, teletypes, cathedral radios) in the aliens' lair is a nice touch. --Jerry Renshaw

CATEGORY:	DVD
DIRECTOR:	Harry Bromley Davenport
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	01 January, 1995
MANUFACTURER:	Image Entertainment
MPAA RATING:	R (Restricted)
FEATURES:	Color
MEDIA:	DVD
UPC:	014381563221