[Warriors Of Terra]
Plot:Ali is a teenager who is convinced her emotionally distant scientist father is experimenting on animals in the high security bio-tech facility where he researches cancer cures. Her new boyfriend Chris is a security guard at the labs but reveals to her that he is the inside man for a planned raid by the animal rights activists, Warriors of Terra. Ali immediately wants to help and steals her father's security card. On the night of the attack, Ali meets the rest of the highly organized and technically equipped team and, when she will not part with her father's card and insists on participating in the raid, makes an instant rival of their charismatic and forceful leader, Jade.

Inside the labs they find no animals to rescue but the alarm is raised and a heavily armed security response team (SRT) storm in. Cornered, the Warriors descend to an abandoned and dilapidated sector deep below the facility, hotly pursued by the SRT. At surface level above them Ali's father arrives and vainly begs the owner of the lab, Issacs, not to initiate the decontamination routine which will kill everything in the subterranean corridors.

Soon both the Warriors and the SRT will discover the true nature of the "experiment" that the scientists are trying to contain. One member of the SRT team stumbles upon a weak naked girl, Maya, a cancer patient whose radical experimental treatment has turned her into a mutant who feeds upon liquefied human organs and who the intruders have inadvertently released her from containment.. She attacks him with tentacles that stretch out from her fingers and tongue. Because her genes have been mutated so much, she can repair herself very quickly and is nearly indestructible, as long as she keeps eating. Both the Warriors and the SRT team are now on the menu. As the decontamination routine ticks down, a terrifying battle for survival unfolds. .

Cast: Edward Furlong, Ellen Furey, Andrea Lui, Dylan Taylor, Andrew Hachey, Krystin Pellerin, Andrew Gillies, James McGowan, Trina Brink, Marc Hickox, Rothaford Gray, Billy MacLellan, Tim Hamaguchi, Jason Stutz, Erin Berry.

My Thoughts:More like warriors of terra-ble.

Review:So what happens when animal rights activists break into a secret lab to free animals who are being experimented upon? You get "Warriors Of Terra", an interesting little film written by Dave Bonneywell and Jeremy Boxen and directed by Robert Wilson. The film follows a group of young animals rights activists who bust into a lab to free animals who are the victims of cruel, and inhumane experiments. One of the group consists of a girl named Ali who set the whole thing up because she suspects her father is at the head of these experiments.

Everything seems to be going smoothly for the group of kids at first, that is until Ali's father shows up with some well-armed security to investigate the break in, and to makes matters worse...a creature is loose in the building. What kind of creature? Well usually in films like these it's some grotesque looking rodent, wolf, or sometimes both. But assuming the proper budget wasn't there for this film (the opening credits are proof of that), they decided to make the creature a young girl who's had so many needles injected into her body that she's gained some freaky deadly powers. Most of which consist of being able to kill anyone with just one touch of her infected hand.

That's right, the girl has been experimented upon so much that she's now a walking carrier of a deadly virus. A virus which should it come into contact with humans, they would immediately begin to waste away and die. Of course this film has the usual cast of characters, I mean...movies like this always have to. You have the guy who is concerned with the infected girl, after all he created her. Then you have the head of the research company who just doesn't want her to escape because of the bad PR it'll bring, and he's willing to do just about anything to make sure she doesn't...including having her killed.

His motives of course conflict with the motives of the girls creator and so you can pretty much see where this film is headed. Whcih is it's biggest problem, it's extremely predictable. Edward Furlong stars in the movie as the leader of the group of activists and his character is pretty much predictable, in the way everything turns out at the end. Furlong has played these roles before, "Cruel World" for example. I think in this movie maybe they should've tried to be a bit more original with his character but in a film where a cool flash effect during the death and chase scenes becomes overused very quickly, and then stops being cool and becomes ultra-annoying...originality is something that's hard to come by. The plot of the film also doesn't really take any interesting turns or twists. The security men sent by the company's head honco and Ali's dad, end up trapped in the lab with the activists, and the film then pretty much breaks down into a "who's gonna die next?" kind of deal, as the guinea pig girl plucks off various people one by one.

One intriguing character amongst all the cliched ones is Jade, played by Andrea Lui. It's not every day you see american horror films with a strong asian female lead. But Lui acts the hell out of her character and makes her really likeable as the tough, witty, hardnosed, and sometimes bitchy (but in a likeable way), second in command to the group of activists. The death scenes in "Warriors Of Terra" aren't really much to speak of, as they are either poorly lit, poorly filmed, or ruined by the signature flash effect which we see in this film atleast five-hundred-thousand times! Yes, it is THAT overused!! The ending of the film comes off as a bit ominous but not really.

In some ways, it can be taken as confusing, but for me...I'm probably just in denial because god forbid a sequel to this awful movie is ever made. "Warriors Of Terra" is really a film for hardcore Edward Furlong fans who can watch him do just about anything, even read the phone book. If you are looking for a good horror movie however, then maybe you should keep looking.

Positives:Lui's performance as Jade.

Negatives:Lame story, lame deaths, and that annoying flash effect.

Overall:Not worth bothering with really.





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