James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp
They get drunk on sour milk. They have two hearts and bald, spotted heads. They're highly intelligent, but if you drop them in seawater they'll melt into a puddle of goop. They're "Newcomers," and ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2001
Stats: 330 reviews
A race of alien beings known as newcomers crashland on Earth and become the newest immigrants in Los Angeles. When some of them are found executed a bigoted detective and his rookie newcomer sidekick investigate. Alien Nation is a buddy cop/sci-fi hybrid that contains a lot of th...( read more)
Hey, it's got James Caan playing a cop. That's all you really need to know.
Not bad considering it's an 80s mash of two usually unbearable film genres, science fiction and buddy cop movies.
I don't regret seeing it, but it's not brilliant and I don't know if I will watch it again of my own volition.
A gritty police drug drama with a whole race of interesting aliens thrown in. It's a nice mix. The racial issues come to a new light. An engaging story is told.
A pretty boring crime drama that was really nothing more than an anti-racist diatribe disguised as a sci-fi.
Now this is what I call a great thriller, Alien Nation works as both a cop movie and as a sci-fi. James Caan and Mandy Pitinkin star as a cop and an alien detective who team up after the murder of Caan's partner and discover there is more to the incident than first percieved. Thi...( read more)
I've never seen the TV show but have seen all the TVMs, and really enjoyed them. So thought I would try the original cinema release (even though the actors were different).
I enjoyed this too, and love the detail put into this race of aliens and how they are on Earth. I thin...( read more)
Very strange movie, but a great idea that hits closer to home than first thought. The film about a cop that is patnered up with the first Alien cop after aliens have been living openly on earth for sometime. A film manly about raceism that hits a few truths. Great fil for the tim...( read more)
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