Threshold (2003)

What makes it different from others?

Very Cool!!!

Overrated

Don't listen to the negative reviews

An astronaut being the carrier of alien insect seeds returns to earth and spawns a bunch of hostile moths, thus spreading the infection. The moths need human hosts to complete their evolution and... yada yada, we've heard it all before. The often ridiculed SyFy Channel - before their name-change, actually – produced this lamentable alien invasion TV-effort, resulting in a highly uninspired mess of straight-faced, cliché-driven shenanigans. Nicholas Lea and Jamie Luner run around earning their paycheck as the scientist duo figuring out ways to save mankind. Nothing remotely interesting is done with the material, and Charles Bowman's utterly bland directing is smudged by cheap cinematography and some generic CGI effects. Remind me again why I watched this?

While repairing a spacecraft, an astronaut is perforated in the arm by a tiny meteor. Once back in Houston, he stays in the hospital for a further examination. Along the night, he breeds some sort of alien moths that attack people with B-negative blood type, transforming them in creatures with claws. Dr. Jerome 'Geronimo' Horne (Nicholas Lea) and Dr. Savannah Bailey (Jamie Lurner) have forty-eight hours for finding a way of destroying the aliens, otherwise Houston will be completely bombed to limit the outbreak."Threshold" is a non-original sci-fi movie with the usual clichés, and with a storyline that mixes "The Astronaut's Wife", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Alien" and other sci-fi of the 50's and 60's. The ham Nicholas Lea is awful, the effects are very poor, and in the end it is a watchable flick for killing time only. The conclusion suggests a sequel that fortunately has not been filmed. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Invasores" ("Invaders")

The other comments on this movie are pretty accurate; however, once I got hooked, I had to stay up to see how it ended. I don't know where the year '2003' came from, and that year was also in the newspaper and cable TV listings. I would guess that this movie was made in the early 1980s. Perhaps the best line in the movie came at the end, after the good guys had (apparently!!) stopped the aliens. The guy and gal were walking on the beach and the guy says something like, "I wonder how man would react to sharing the earth with beings who might even be superior." And the gal responds, "Are you talking about women?" ;-)

I can`t remember much about this TVM except for the fact I hated it . This was down to two things 1 ) The techno-babble . In order to fool the audience into thinking they`re watching a high brow sci-fi movie the writer has introduced reams and reams of big words in the dialogue and there`s no way I can quote it because I`ve no idea how the spell the words . It doesn`t matter if they`re real scientific expressions or just made up because the audience will be totally confused either way2 ) The gore is rasther off putting . You see being a TVM I was expecting a PG certificate but we see things like killer moths from outer space burrowing out of peoples` limbs . Yuck