Guilty Pleasures #42 - Taking Earth

It’s been 9 months now, time for a Guilty Pleasures reviews review. I’m sorry it’s taken this long to back to it, but I’ve been busy with my other review types and haven’t managed to schedule one in. The good news is I have a decent backlog that goes well into 2019, with a lot of current movies likely to fall under the banner. So, let’s start with a movie you’ve likely never heard of, Taking Earth

Released in 2017, this movie had a budget of $250,000, this is about 1000^th of the budget for a Hollywood movie, and puts it within the budget of something like… Interstellar Wars. If you’ve followed my review you know I absolutely detest that piece of sh*t, so can something salvageable be made is this genre with that kind of budget, well, I did just review the Australiens, which had even less of a budget but here’s something a little more serious.

It does appear to be a passion project, one of Grant Humphries, who co-wrote, produced and edited this movie.

The critical reception to this one is pretty negative, so do I see some saving graces or is this is going to turn into Rage review on my second watch and completely ruin the comeback? Only way to find out, but beware, spoilers will follow.