Species - 1995

 When was the last time you rewatched Species?  Does that fucking movie hold up?

Species is that 90's sci fi movie that wasn't Alien but had similar designs.  HR Giger designed this creature as well, this creature being called Sil in the Wikipedia, though I don't think that name is ever mentioned in the movie.  Species is directed by Roger Donaldson and stars Natasha Henstridge, Forest Whitaker, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley.  What a cast!

In the beginning, an alien creature lands on Earth and after it kills some people, a crack-shot team of people are put together to track down the alien that's loose in LA.  Man, remember when movies were casually shot in LA?  Every fuckin movie is shot in Canada, Australia, New Mexico, anywhere else besides LA these days.  Anyways, this team has persons of different specialties hunting down the alien species, and they'll need it cause she's a seductive, intelligent, dangerous foe.

This movie is great!  I liked it a lot as a kid, and I liked it a lot now.  I remembered this as being the "trashy" alien movie, with tons of nudity and some ridiculous effects and a who cares kinda plot.  It is still that.  I remember seeing this when I was say 13, and being so into this fucking movie.  

Rewatching it now, first and foremost, the cast is excellent.  Natasha Henstridge kills it in a demanding, big role, and honestly isn't really naked that many times.  Okay, maybe it's like 7-8 times, but I thought it was much more.  She's beautiful and dead perfect as a somewhat alien acting, deadly woman.  Then, everyone else is great too, even Michael Madsen mostly works.  

The plot of it all is ridiculous, and so many things are blazed by at 100 miles an hour, sorta, hush hush just go with it sorta thing.  Forest Whitaker is a psychic "empath" how, why? Hush!  Go with it.  You know what's gonna happen.  She'd gonna mate, it's gonna become a hunt, and there'll be plenty of action.  It delivers in other words.

It's not a great high-art movie, but it's fun, and it's a perfect high movie, probably.  I was sober.  Such is life.  I give it a classic 4 star B movie rating.