Zone Troopers (1985)

It’s all so cheap looking, 17 July 2019

The quick pitch:  In the midst of WWII, the Nazis and Allies find something else to fight over - a crashed alien craft.

Ever wondered what would have happened if aliens had crashed in the middle of a WWII battlefield?  Yeah, me neither.  Zone Troopers takes this lame idea and sucks the life out of it.  The script is horribly dull, the direction is flat, and the acting is poor.  My biggest complaint though is that Zone Troopers is so cheap looking.  I wasn’t expecting much from the aliens (and the FX didn’t disappoint), but I hoped for more from the battle scenes.  Instead of battle-hardend soldiers, these guys reminded me of yokels playing paintball out in the woods.  The googly-eyed alien comes of looking not-half-bad in comparison.  

My “favorite” bit had to be the American soldier punching HItler.  How stupid was that?


3/10