{"id":9229,"date":"2005-01-30T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2005-01-30T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T03:30:50","slug":"species-iii-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/species-iii-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Species III (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"key_art_species_iii\"<\/a>After the sequel to Species, the army is now transporting her body to the morgue for testing, but discovers she’s not exactly dead and has given birth to two offspring. Sil, the original species (cameo by Natasha Henstridge) is killed, but not before she gives birth to a child which is stolen by a soldier and taken in. The name of the child is Sara a brand new species\/half-breed. Sara is played by the beautiful and angelic Sunny Mabrey, who pulls in a good performance as the new creature forced to discover the world. She presents the same sexual appeal predecessor Henstridge did, and is just as threatening.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile there are other offspring of Sil who are on the track of Sara including a beautiful hot species Amelia played by Amelia Cooke (hot!). She plays the evil opposite twin and specieses from Sara who is on the hunt for her for her own personal gain and invading the world with their own kind. She’s using her incredible sexual appeal to get what she wants and is matched pound for pound in the power department against Sara. Now, I’m not sure who was hotter, Amelia Cooke or Sunny Mabrey–either way this movie gets a plus just for them and the surprising entertainment appeal. Now, I did not like Species and I disliked Species 2 even more, but this was oddly amusing in its plot and acting. Robin Dunne plays Dean, a young scientist who comes across Sara in his research and is asked by her kidnapper and caretaker to help take care of her and is bribed.<\/p>\n

Dunne and Mabrey have really good chemistry here and Dunne is a good hero here who ends up forming a bond with Sara. Mabrey presents the same innocence but wild sexual presence Henstridge did, and the two are good to watch together. Meanwhile, we have the same murky story with some great special effects and gored including one good scene where a guard is split into half on camera that I really dug. I found this entertaining, as hard as I wanted to dislike this movie; I really did find it an entertaining and interesting story with good performances, especially from Mabrey who is a really good successor to Henstridge despite the obvious “pilot” tone added to this sequel. I was never bored and I cared about what happened to the characters, so this was obviously the best of the series. What do you do with a sub-par science fiction film? Give it two sequels of course! You silly goose.<\/p>\n

This third sequel focuses this time around on Sil’s daughter. Of course, Henstridge wouldn’t want to go back to slumming it on a STV sequel would she? So what do the writer’s do? Pay a lower actress to portray an offspring, because them aliens multiply like jack rabbits! The lower actress I so callously refer to is Sunny Mabrey whom you may remember from “The New Guy”, I sure as hell do. This obvious pilot for a proposed series at the SCI FI channel never pulls off what it looks like it’s trying to. While they eliminate all possible chances for a sequel with a dumb loophole, this never succeeds with the mood it’s trying to come across. It ultimately lacks the murky story and possible foreboding of alien invasion by its cheap device of ending the mating with the last two offspring.<\/p>\n

The original two were dumb but entertaining solely because of its accomplished directing by Roger Donaldson, and then Peter Medak but instead the film looks digital and sometimes live with some rather annoying direction by Brad Turner, whose previous credits include mostly television shows. The special effects here are cheesy with the suits often looking just like suits and not like creatures at all, and the fights between the creatures are as low tech as possible. What do you expect with such a low budget? There’s not a whole lot of character emphasis as the first two focused on. Instead we’re given broad sketches of what each of the characters are like; Sara vulnerable and beautiful but deadly, Amelia, the polar opposite or Bizarro alien, if you will, who is aggressive, hot and deadly.<\/p>\n

And the supporting characters whom we never get to know much about, mostly because it’s assumed by me that they’re leaving it up to the series to take care of it, which sucks, because if the series never pulls through, we’re left with a dumb movie without characters we can truly know. And questions about the plot line. For instance, is Amelia hunting Sara, or the sun machine? And for what purpose? They claim the device is as hot as the sun, but whenever someone is close to it, they never get burned. Regardless, my main gripe is the lack of exploration of characters, including on Sara’s part which is mostly just left up to the imagination of the audience. Most of the characters in the actual film are just throwaways, but Sara is the one the script pushes for us to like most of all. Why should we root for her if we don’t know her personality very well? You end up not caring, as I did. Despite lack of story depth, and very low-tech special and creature effects, this was a pretty entertaining sequel with good performances and a fine successor to Henstridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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