XTRO: Watch the Skies |  | Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
Actors: David Weininger, Karen Moncrieff, Al Ruscio, Sal Landi, Andrew Divoff
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 014381563221
EAN: 0014381563221
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: June 29, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com
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
Description
The shroud of mystery is about to be lifted. For years, the government has successfully covered up very real proof of U.F.O.s, but when a group of Marines is dispatched to a deserted island, they uncover unsettling evidence of brutal experiments and a lone surviving alien out for revenge.
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 Disgusting, hostile, vile, and stupid... yet chilling August 8, 2006
kadatheron
I agree with another reviewer in that "despise" is the right word for this film. "Disgusting, hostile, vile, and stupid" are some of the right adjectives.
The only "redeeming" feature, sort of, was the "alien vivisection" scene. The acting and effects were lousy in that scene, yet I found it truly horrible, yet moving, and terribly saddening.
And you really understand why the alien does what he does.
It makes me wonder if someone involved in making the film had family members who had something horrible done to them by one of the ghastly dictatorships, or terror or crime organizations, of which there are too many in this world. The scene reminded me of so much I've read about such things.
Yes, very bad film, but with a kernel of something all too horribly real at the center of it.
I despise this film March 17, 2005
Philip Cottraux (Salisbury, NC)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Xtro 3" is one of the worst movies ever made. I hated every stupid, idiotic, unpleasant moment of it. The only joy I have from it is getting to write this scathing review expressing my detest. It is my personal revenge against the movie.
I don't dislike horror movies, but they have to be handled in the right way. They have to be fun, exciting, and scary. "Xtro 3" is none of those things. It's disgusting, hostile, vile, and stupid. It's filled with guts, slime, pulsating things, blood, vomit...things handled greatly in "Alien," but that movie was brilliant and good.
The special effects in this movie are laughable...did anyone notice that the alien makes the sound of a cougar or mountain lion? Did the filmmakers think no one would notice that? The alien looks cheesy, the acting is terrible, the characters and dialogue are one-dimension--
And yet all these things would be forgivable if the movie didn't take itself so seriously, and above all, weren't so hostile. It tells its story as if it's lashing out at the audience. An unholy and unpleasant experience.
 COOL ALIEN MOVIE November 9, 2004
Tom Goryssimo (Skies above, Heaven FR)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This flick is all good !! I you love B movies, you can't go wrong with this one. It seems to me that most of the other reviewers should stick to blockbusters and leave my friend XTRO alone.
I agree this movie is litle bit slow at times but other than that, the director and the actors ( ANDREW DIVOFF rules !!) do their job properly. On top of that, the special effects are indeed great and the plot is maybe not that original but very touching.
Call me naive but a story about a tortured ALIEN, whose wife and unborn child have been killed, who takes revenge upon the human kind in such a wicked way really does it for me.
GORYSSIMO says check this out !!
appauling October 26, 2000
P Dunlop (GRIMSBY, United Kingdom)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
well just what can you say about a movie like this the effects,screenplay,directing,acting were simply awful none of it was even slightly realistic.To think i actually thought this film was going to be even slightly scary. Oh yes and by the way i didnt want to put any stars but seen as though its compulsory to put at the least 1 i had no option in large i am basing this revieuw on the vhs version,although in contrast any one buying the digital disc version must be out of their mind.
The effects were the best part!!! November 3, 1999
Lori France (loriy@stes.com) (Texas)
The movie was average, it features Tom Hanks brother. The effects were the best part of the movie. I have heard that this movie is a cult classic, for a "B' scream movie is has descent effects.
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