Okay good morning again as I am still here and I hope you are too! So for whatever reason, I did not review this when I originally saw it a few months back and have since rewatched it two days ago (so it's fresh in the mind). To clarify for most people who think that this is a re-make of the 80's version, it is not. I think they knew better than to touch something some beautiful honestly. For those of you who have seen the 80's version, you know how amazing it is and how it really doesn't need to be remade at all. But anyway, this movie is not a re-make, but it is a prequel which answered a lot of unanswered questions from the other movie such as the who, what, where, when, and why.
**Spoilers?** Continue at your own risk! :)
The thing I like about this movie as it connects into the other one pretty perfectly. Some such examples of this are the axe that was found, the man who committed suicide in the chair, the two headed beast, and the helicopter chasing the dog.
In the beginning, Kate (a graduate student and scientist) is contracted to go to Antarctica to assist with uncovering and studying an alien life form and ship. Once she gets there, however, she learns she is in over her head. The alien comes back to life while the rest of the team is partying over their victory and starts by "eating" Henrik. Kate discovers later that the alien was trying to absorb him and clone itself into Henrik only it cannot absorb inorganic materials such as the metal placed in his arm when he broke it. The next day she discovers blood and fillings on the floor in the bathroom and signals the helicopter which is just about to leave to come back. Just as they're about to land, one of the passengers (Griggs) starts mutating into the alien and throws the plane into the ground.
When Kate confronts the team with her findings, nobody believes her until Juliette turns into the alien herself and tries to kill them. It is decided that the team will run blood tests to see who is an alien. The test is sabotaged when the lab is set on fire, making it impossible to run. Kate thinks of a temporary test by checking for fillings in everyone's mouths and separating them at flamethrower point (instead of gunpoint. Get it? Lol)
The pilot and passenger of the plane somehow make it back alive and are held in a locked cabin. When Lars goes to get them for the test, they have escaped. Thinking that they are the aliens, the rest of the group searches for them. During the panic, Edvard transforms into his alien self and attacks both Jonas and Adam. He morphs himself into Adam and create the two headed beast you see in the 80's film which I thought was a nice little addition there.
With most of the crew pretty much dead, Sam and Kate roast all of the beasts and try to escape. With a grenade they destroy the alien and part of the ship and then go to leave. It is here that Kate realizes that Sam is a copy and kills him, leaving on her own.
The movie closes with Lars getting on the helicopter to chase the dog which is where you lead into the other movie. It is never said what happened to Kate after she left. I think I'd like to see what happened there. Maybe lead into a third movie that occurs after the 80's one? That would be pretty cool to see. They really could have kept going with this one since it's so cool.
Overall? I liked the movie a lot, but not as much as the 80's one. This was a GREAT prequel though. Sometimes they do prequels or sequels and they are just godawful terrible, but this one I thought was great. I'm going to give this one a four.
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