224. Occupation Rainfall; movie review

 

 

OCCUPATION RAINFALL

Cert 15

128 mins

BBFC advice: Contains strong language, fantasy violence

I get it that the worldwide cinema-going public is probably fed up with Americans and Brits saving the planet on the big screen.

But if others are going to compete with Marvel, DC or Disney, they will have to concentrate more on the detail than the makers of Occupation Rainfall.

Luke Sparke's film is set after an alien invasion of earth in which millions if not billions of humans have been killed.

The survivors have banded together in a desperate resistance alongside aliens who have switched allegiance.

However, the interlopers are intransigent and the resistance uncovers a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end, finishing off mankind.

Occupation Rainfall's visual effects (except for the aliens themselves) will please those who like a bit of visual stimulation but they cannot compensate for a bewildering storyline, continuity errors and strangely mundane dialogue.

Even the comedy double act between  Ken Jeong and Jason Isaacs, as a movie-obsessed alien, is bizarre and out of place.

Even the film's big reveal left us utterly bemused.

Occupation Rainfall may have had laudable ambition in going head-to-head with the blockbuster movies but its execution is so poor, it fails by a distance.

Reasons to watch: If you like a humans-vs-aliens battle

Reasons to avoid: Bad acting and difficult-to-fathom plot

Laughs: None

Jumps: None

Vomit: None

Nudity: None

Overall rating: 2/10

Did you know? A confidential report details sightings on 15 July 1960 of an unidentified flying object near Wewak, a nuclear weapons testing range some 24 kilometres from Maralinga Village, South Australia. 

The final word. Luke Sparke: "“I think it’s important for the next generation of people to know that Australians do have a voice. We make great dramas, we make great comedies, but I think it’s also good to have an action sci-fi film like this."

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