So I finally got round to watching it last night. While it’s no masterpiece, it’s a perfectly enjoyable piece of 80’s sci fi nonsense. You could almost read it as a satire on consumerism. Why is the alien quite so keen on Ferraris, Rock and Boomboxes? What’s its agenda exactly? If it wants to become president and take over the world, why all the vehicular carnage and shooting? Surely a softly, softly approach would be more appropriate. But on the positive side we have a surprisingly delicate, nuanced performance from Kyle MacLachlan which nicely balances out all the mayhem. In fact it may be one of the best of his career.
I also thoroughly enjoyed this monologue – TOM “In the span of 12 hrs I’ve got 5 bodies, not counting Miller, who dies because he runs out of blood. A stripper screws some guy to death, steals his car and takes off. All of this in 12 hrs. I wanna ask you. Am I crazy? Or does this seem just a little bizarre.” Quality.