Can't... hold...
focus....
'Creature' is a tired
boring 'Alien'
rip that's hits so many of the same beats as it's host that I'm
surprised they managed to copyright it as a separate entity.
I'm not going to bother
explaining the plot, because it really is the same as 'Alien', save
for the details. There are a few ships in this one and they all stay
grounded for the duration, is the main affecting difference. The
characters move around between the ships and do stuff for reasons,
but they're all so thinly fleshed out that it becomes really
difficult to follow the details.
The creature itself was
essentially a Xenomorph, minus the little tongue mouth and with some
goofy glowing red eyes. The suit was clearly terribly constructed,
and gets very little air time (one long and somewhat hilarious
sequence sees it slowly make its way down a corridor while a human
begs for the door at the far end to be opened. He sounds so panicked,
but there was no real rush – the alien would have taken like an
hour to reach him at it's slow waddle.
The acting was fairly
shoddy all-round, save Klaus Kinski. Thank god for Kinski, he's
pretty much the only redeemable thing about this movie, and he puts
his creepy-ass all into it.
Don't bother with this
one though, seriously. Even if you really like sci-fi, it just left
me feeling mildly depressed.
Creature: 12.4