If not for the fact that there were actual actors in this candidate for the "two-for-$1.oo" bin at your local rental store, "Without Warning" would have went straight into the five cent bin.
The alien-goes-hunting-for-humans bit has been seen a hundred zillion times but what makes this one different? The fact that it features such latter-day Oscar winners as Landau and Palance in big parts. Also, former "NYPD Blue"-boy Caruso picks up a paycheck herein as does Brand, Mitchell and Meeker, who have done great things before but, sadly, not since. Even Larry Storch puts in a gag appearance as an unlucky scout leader.
And the alien itself? Kevin Peter Hall, the same guy who played big, masked title creatures in the "Predator" flicks and "Harry and the Hendersons" (he was Harry). But it doesn't really show up until the last 10 minutes. Not that it makes a difference, but it's the best thing in the whole movie, along with those mean little toothy frisbees it throws at people.
By the time it's all over, what have you got? Ninety or so minutes stolen from your life. Gone. Forever. Never to come back.
What's that? You haven't seen it? Smart.
One star. For the alien. As for the rest, you can't say you were "Without Warning".
Sorry, had to work the title in one more time....
The alien-goes-hunting-for-humans bit has been seen a hundred zillion times but what makes this one different? The fact that it features such latter-day Oscar winners as Landau and Palance in big parts. Also, former "NYPD Blue"-boy Caruso picks up a paycheck herein as does Brand, Mitchell and Meeker, who have done great things before but, sadly, not since. Even Larry Storch puts in a gag appearance as an unlucky scout leader.
And the alien itself? Kevin Peter Hall, the same guy who played big, masked title creatures in the "Predator" flicks and "Harry and the Hendersons" (he was Harry). But it doesn't really show up until the last 10 minutes. Not that it makes a difference, but it's the best thing in the whole movie, along with those mean little toothy frisbees it throws at people.
By the time it's all over, what have you got? Ninety or so minutes stolen from your life. Gone. Forever. Never to come back.
What's that? You haven't seen it? Smart.
One star. For the alien. As for the rest, you can't say you were "Without Warning".
Sorry, had to work the title in one more time....