Almost 10 minutes near the beginning developing characters I can't recall the names of? Asylum! Thinking you're the Bard? It timed out at 00:08:18 of non-monster/alien spaceship footage; enough to make me almost give up and ask, "Is this truly an Asylum movie?"

I'm glad I hung on. It delivered. Pure "cr*ppy monster movies" (their script, verbatim) of the expected studio signature, where the plot holes require 20m planks to traverse, the self-deprecation of the studio's reputation for pure schlock, the deep investment in their known tropes of family reunification, numerous camara angles within each scene to capture each emotional wince delivered from their stellar cast, and the total absurdity of the story arc. And hats off to the steady camerapersons for mimicking the currently popular stylistic choice of handheld over boom or trolley-based filming, while still holding focus on characters tight enough to reduce nausea to the viewer; not that the wizards at the studio didn't reveal their competency with some very professional camera work slipped in throughout the roller coaster montage of mashups from previous Asylum classics.

But seriously, how the heck did The president survive the helicopter crash, his LtC daughter survive a face off with a 100m long piranha, and his doctor daughter survive an alien spaceship crash? Such mysteries, if ever filmed, did not make the final cut, and are left to the viewer's imagination.

Torn between rating this a 2 or a 10, I go for the 2 in hopes of qualifying it for future selection by MST3K. Such film must be remembered.

This film starts in 2006, the jumps forward 25 years. That makes it set in 2031. NOT 2025. I doubt gis was deliberate, The Asylum don't care that much.

Over all this is an average Asylum film. Not as good as the first Sharknado or Methgator, but still watchable. The performances are what you'd expect from a movie of this caliber. No one os going to win an oscar, and the special effects are a lttle lacking.

At least the know how to take the piss out of them selves. There are a lot of tongue in cheek Aslyum jokes here.

If you enoy the Asylum films you'll enjoy this. Nothing new but it does what it says on the poster.

The film starts out in 2006 when sister Maddy and Quinn watch Asylum's "Snakes on a Train" by their grandmother because they were too young to watch the one worthwhile watching. In 2025 their Dad Thomas Ramsey (Michael Pare) is Secretary of Defense (I think). The sisters had a falling out (Asylum films are about broken families reuniting as a sub-theme). Maddy (Jhey Castles) is a Lt. Colonel in the Navy, a rank that does not exist. Quinn (Lindsey Marie Wilson) works for NASA and has a two-way radio that transmits from under the Atlantic Ocean. Soon aliens, the Xelitians (I am sure there is an anagram in there somewhere) are attacking Earth using creatures they are manufacturing from their watching Asylum films. Aaron (Phillip Andre Botello) of the FCC is the first to figure this out and knows the nature of the next attack. Meanwhile the Capitol is destroyed and Dad takes over as President making Alexander Haig, green with envy.

The characters were horribly done. Michael Gaglio was good as himself, something they should have done more.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.