Alien Hunter (2003)
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The Beacon| Tagline(s): | At the ends of the Earth, it's the end of the world... |
| There IS something out there! | |
| Earth just got its final warning! |
Nomination Year: 2009
SYNOPSIS: Brilliant linguist and alien conspiracy theorist Dr. Daniel Jackson (played by James Spader) is approached by a top-secret military program in the hopes that he can decode an
alien language and unlock the secrets of The Stargate!
Oh wait. Wrong movie.
Brilliant linguist and alien conspiracy theorist Dr.Daniel Jackson Julian Rome (played by James Spader) is approached by a top-secret military program in the
hopes that he can decode an alien language and unlock the secrets of The Stargate! an alien artifact at a remote Antarctic base. He agrees to go and, less than
20 minutes into the film, he is shown a gigantic frozen space-turd in a block of ice. Touching the ice causes him to have some sort of strange vision of outer space, so the
alien hunt is successful. Congratulations.
Rather than end the film there, he sets to work trying to decode the strange signal coming from somewhere inside the block. He discovers, too late, that the aliens have (for some reason) encrypted a warning: "Do Not Open." The people on the base who survive the explosion learn that the space-turd is an escape pod, and the alien inside has a super-contagious space disease which wiped out all life on Mars. The people on the base who survive exposure to the disease are now carriers.
The top-secret military program somehow knew about the risk of this disease: thus the remote Antarctic base. They give a courtesy call letting the folks there know that, what with the disease and all, it'd probably be for the best if they just nuked the base. All but one or two of the researchers agree that this would be a good idea. The dissenters make a run for the surface, where they are fried by an alien ship which had stopped by to pick up the escape pod. It picks up the rest of the researchers and flies them off just as the nukes hit and destroy the base.
Oh wait. Wrong movie.
Brilliant linguist and alien conspiracy theorist Dr.
Rather than end the film there, he sets to work trying to decode the strange signal coming from somewhere inside the block. He discovers, too late, that the aliens have (for some reason) encrypted a warning: "Do Not Open." The people on the base who survive the explosion learn that the space-turd is an escape pod, and the alien inside has a super-contagious space disease which wiped out all life on Mars. The people on the base who survive exposure to the disease are now carriers.
The top-secret military program somehow knew about the risk of this disease: thus the remote Antarctic base. They give a courtesy call letting the folks there know that, what with the disease and all, it'd probably be for the best if they just nuked the base. All but one or two of the researchers agree that this would be a good idea. The dissenters make a run for the surface, where they are fried by an alien ship which had stopped by to pick up the escape pod. It picks up the rest of the researchers and flies them off just as the nukes hit and destroy the base.
Matt Quirk
Ron Krauss
James Spader
Janine Eser
John Lynch
Nikolai Benev
Leslie Stefanson
Aimee Graham
Atanas Srebrev
Stuart Charno
Carl Lewis
Roy Dotrice
