Alien Love: Review

20th July 2024

Ryan (Nathan Hill) is an astronaut and despite having the kind of job that most people could never aspire, his life on Earth is normal. His wife, Sadie (Ira Chakraborty) however is anxious when Ryan returns home from a mission and she finds that he’s not quite the man who left her. She can’t quite put her finger on it but something tells her that Ryan just isn’t the same.

Then one day she gets a visit from Colonel John Smith (Edward Mylan) and she tells him that they’re aware that something happened to Ryan while he was in space, but they’re not quite sure what. This leads Sadie to become increasingly worried about her husband’s unusual behaviour.

Alien Love is a science fiction movie about a couple drifting apart. Directed by Simon Oliver and co-written by Nathan Hill, it tells a familiar story which could have been plucked straight from the pages of an old science fiction comic.

However, like Nathan Hill’s previous movie, there are things that the audience may need to take on board while watching. Mainly that it’s of a low budget variety and perhaps not all of the actors were classically trained. Although if you’re willingly watching a low budget movie called Alien Love, then you may know what to expect.

Even taking all this on board though there are still issues that the audience may have to consider. Because as with Nathan Hill’s previous movie, there is a definite issue with pacing. For a movie that takes less than ninety minutes this is a problem because although the premise is raised quite early, there really doesn’t seem to be enough urgency for Sadie and the other characters to unravel the mystery.

For director Oliver, it seems his ethos is that he should show his audience and not tell – something which is to be commended. However, combined with the script, this often makes it feel like things are just happening and there isn’t enough to keep the audience engaged or to care about the audience. This unfortunately makes Alien Love a film that gets less interesting and more baffling as it goes along.

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