Screamers: The Hunting (2009)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Great Film overall

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The effects are infinitely better than the first movie but somehow the charm is gone. It looked good but wasn't the most exciting to look at. The sound was great - good use of directionality and very crisp and clear. The characters were so dull and unimaginative. This reminded me of The Thing (1982) but it was nowhere near as good. Still it never got boring and the screamers were pretty bad-ass. Not the most enjoyable but not bad either. The characters were too dull.

After two months in cryogenic sleep, a rescue mission composed of seven crew members arrive in Sirius 6B to investigate an SOS distress signal sent from the planet. Sirius 6B was assumed uninhabited after the annihilation of humans by the weapons screamers created by the scientist Orsow (Lance Henriksen).On the arrival, the team led by Captain Andy Sexton (Greg Bryk) is informed that in seven days, the planet will be blown by a severe storm that will destroy any survivor and they need to leave the planet before the event. Sooner they meet humans in a military outpost that battle against them and the team spends the night in a facility. They find hundreds of deactivated screamers and during the night, Sexton sneaks out and charges one screamer to download its hard disk with all the information about the lethal weapon. On the next morning, they return to their spaceship Medusa and learn that s screamer has killed the watcher Soderquist (Jody Richardson) and stolen the battery cells. Now they must contact the hostile survivors the get any battery cell that might be available in the planet. When they succeed in contacting the survivors, they learn that the screamers have evolved to a state-of-art generation with human form."Screamers: The Hunting" is an entertaining B-movie made for television with the king of the genre Lance Henriksen. I had glanced at the unfair reviews in IMDb and only yesterday I decided to see this film with the lowest expectation.However, the story is very reasonable, with action, good special effects considering that it is a TV movie and a predictable rip-off "Alien" in the end. The rescue team is probably the clumsiest ever, since the team members commit only mistakes and misjudgment of the situation and leads themselves and the survivors that have been living in the planet for many years to death. How the screamer has entered in Medusa is a good question. Why one member of the squad walks without his tab is another good question. Anyway, if the viewer likes B-Sci-Fi films with action, he or she will probably enjoy "Screamers: The Hunting" despite the flaws in the plot. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Screamers, A Caçada" ("Screamers, The Hunting")

Sequel to the cult favorite, Screamers, follows a space crew from Earth ordered to answer a distress signal regarding human survivors on the mining planet of Sirius 6B. Robot creatures, which move underground, nicknamed "screamers"(..because they make a loud screeching sound before contact with victims), are actively evolving, now capable of fusing mechanically with human body parts, which makes them an even greater threat. Also on it's way is a meteor storm which will destroy Sirius 6B and so the crew must avoid the perilous danger from the screamers, find any survivors and escape within a 6 day window. Making matters worse is when a screamer drains the fuel cells of the crew's ship, forcing them to find a source of power elsewhere. Finding a small group of miners still alive, the crew hopes that they can lead them to the fuel cells needed to get off the planet before it is destroyed by the meteor shower. As long as the screamers are active, this will not be easy.Lance Henriksen shows up about an hour in as Orsow, a scientist who understands the screamers because he actually was the one who designed them. Plenty of bloody gore as the screamers tear apart victims, both as little bug-like robots and in half-human, half-robot hybrid form. A mix of computer graphics and practical effects, not too bad, I've seen much worse. Plenty of exciting action set pieces, but nothing that extraordinary or earth-shattering. You can see that the budget is a bit less than the first, understandably so considering this sequel comes 14 years after the original. Sorely lacking a Peter Weller to buoy the cast, Greg Bryk is more accustomed to portraying villains, and is pretty much a major reason the crew faces such difficulties, setting off the army of screamers after turning one on to collect logarithms which would provide his superiors with advanced technology for purposes of war..he portrays Commander Andy Sexton, the leader of the crew. Gina Holden, as Lt. Victoria Bronte, portrays Joe Hendricksson's(Weller)daughter, getting involved with a mysterious miner. The remaining cast, either portraying members of Sexton's crew or those miners found still alive, become casualties along the way. Important scenes, explaining the evolution of the screamers, include the crew's finding a factory containing an assembly line of screamers reaching for miles, and what appear to be tortured humans imprisoned behind an electromagnetic field(..released by the crew who think the miners are mere savages keeping them for a food supply). There's a twist I think many viewers will see coming a mile away, but the ending is shocking enough. The running threat of the robots(..or their technology)reaching Earth is always present.

Are you freaking kidding me this movie was beyond awful.Well the acting was terrible, which just supplemented the poorly written script, it was flat and obvious who was playing for what side. It wasn't even close to what the original Screamers tried to do. This wasn't a Psychological Thriller, this was a shoot 'em up Sci-Fi Movie done very poorly.Gina Holden just terrible and F**KING DUH she's playing Col. Hendricksson's daughter.Greg Bryk the Intrepid Commander of the Mission, apparently in the future Officer's have no sense of honor since we discover that he only came because he's greedy.Lance Hendriksen needed a far bigger part as he was the only decent actor in the movie.As for the ending. Wow, Morons, Think About it, as a military officer you would never take a ship home that could have something harmful to the planet. They would have died. And in the end what can I say other then this seems a lot similar to Species? TRASH. I recommend that you watch this movie if it on on TV, abridged, and if there is absolutely nothing else on. You'll thank me for it.1 out of 10