The terminal in question looks a lot like the small airport in Wings. I was half expecting Crystal Bernard and her feathered hair to walk out of the kitchen and provide some small piece of country wisdom. Instead of Crystal Bernard we get the equally pretty, but manly named Chase Masterson (is she the sister of Chest Rockwell?)

Chase, like so many of the cast is pale and icy. Let me just get this out of the way - the movie was filmed in Canada and most of the actors are Canadian. Not that it really matters in a flick like this. They even manage to mention that Canada is just over the border. I know I've beat this horse way past dead, but I inwardly cringe when I hear people say things like "aboot" and "wooder (water)".

The aliens establish their "invasion" using that poorest of attacking strategies: the Bruce Lee versus a Group of Baddies approach, in which one member of the group attacks the hero one at a time. How do they manage to enact this brilliant plan? They're hidden among the group of people now trapped in a snowstorm and forced to stay in the terminal. So everyone's a suspect. And instead of overtaking them all at once, they take the dumb and dramatic route. This supposed advanced race also doesn't have any weapons. Where are the ray guns?!?

Enough wasting time. Let's get to the man himself - Bruce. Like one of his previous quickie-movie endeavors, (Assault on Dome 4) - he plays a murder who escapes police custody. Of course, he does so in a bloodless way, setting him up to be the de-facto hero of the movie. Smartly, the filmmakers dress Bruce up in a blue shirt and brown pants, basically the Ash uniform in the Evil Dead flicks. He's just like Ash except that he doesn't have as many lines and the lines he does have are pretty crappy. For a cheapo-movie like this, we don't need serious Bruce. Give us the winking and smarmy! After all, it's what he does best.

That said, there have been worse movies on the Sci-Fi channel. Terminal Invasion even manages to throw in some surprise twists that I didn't see coming. But it's crappy. But it has Bruce. But it has bad child actors. But it has Bruce. But it features cheesy special effects. Bruce.

Ahh, hell. I'm going to go watch Evil Dead II for the 104th time.

Movie Grade: Not Enough Winking Bruce