The Shadow Men (1998)

Smells like someone passed gas!

Stink-o-rama! This is one of the worst(and unintentionally funny) movies I've seen in quite some time. Gawd! The acting (or lack thereof) was apparent from start to finish. MIB? Hahahahahaha. No way. These guys would have you rolling on the floor instead of running for your life! In short then...if you want a good laugh this movie is for you...otherwise, go to your dentist. Nuff said...

Edit: I decided to watch this movie again and it was worse that the first time (full of laughs though). Save your money! January 15, 2007

Oh my Gawd!

I have seen a couple of movies worse than this one, but only a couple, including Robinson Crusoe On Mars.

Horrific acting, stupid plot, bratty child actor. Cheesy special effects, some of the most hilariously lame fight scenes I have ever seen in my life. It makes spaghetti westerns and amateur porn films look like high art. Dean Stockwell should be ashamed. Guess he needed money.

Rent it first, before even spending $8.99 on it. It might be worth having if you find rubber masked aliens dressed up like the Blues Brothers humorous, and want to listen to a bratty kid continually call his father an idiot, but otherwise, it's a good one to miss. June 9, 2006

Beware the Men in Black

UFO lore holds that people who have experienced encounters are often visited by mysterious men in black who convince them not to talk about their experiences. While Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones were in a movie that had a lot of fun with this idea, this movie takes the grimmer and darker path.

A family out hiking for a day has an experience with some lights on their way home. They have little or no memory of the experience except disturbing dreams. But as they try to figure out what is going on, they get a visit from the Men in Black. Soon it becomes obvious that they are being watched and are in danger. They turn to a UFO researcher for help.

Family and researcher piece together more of what happened but get targeted by the Men in Black again. In the end we learn more about the Men in Black and who they are but not before some very tense action as the story fully unfolds.

Very well-done with a pretty good cast. The researcher is simplified a little so that the story can unfold in the space of a movie but otherwise it was a tense movie with some chilling moments. March 4, 2005

Is Ed Wood responsible?

I watched this movie today for the first time and I found it
unintentionally hilarious. I can't imagine what Stockwell and
Roberts were thinking when they jumped into this project. The film has the misfortune of being released in the same era as the intentionally hilarious "Men in Black," which steals (and mocks) the thunder from the serious premise of the movie.
One scene in particular had me howling. Six or seven hybrid human/alien MiBs charge a house, and it looks like "Revenge of the Blues Brothers," or something.
I gotta say, I found it riveting for all the wrong reasons.
The acting was horrible, as the actors must have known what
a dog they were in as filming progressed.
Speaking of dogs, Anthrax the Border Collie did a great job.
August 28, 2004

Dean Stockwell lives

Throw away your notion of Men in Black; find the truth about them.

Stan Mills (Dean Stockwell) has a close encounter that compels him to champion those other encounteries that have nowhere to turn to. Years later Bob Wilson (Eric Roberts) decides to take his family out hiking in a deserted area that he knew as a kid. It is not as if a weird gas station pump jockey did not warn him. Yep you guessed it. And the mysteries men come back to clean up any evidence later to clean up WHITNESSES.

Will the family turn to Stan Mills for protection?
If so can he really help?
What is the secret of the men in black?

February 12, 2004

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