Blu-ray Review – Alien Private Eye

Writer/director Vik Rubenfeld attempts to manufacture his own take on film noir with 1989's "Alien Private Eye." It's a detective story with sci-fi touches, but the whole endeavor is trying to replicate movie classics from the 1940s, putting an investigator in the middle of a criminal mess, lured in by feminine powers while forced to fight for his life as trouble intensifies. Rubenfeld has his fandom, which offers some very light energy to the effort, but this is his moviemaking debut, and inexperience is a major issue for the picture. "Alien Private Eye" has an idea, but no real clue what to do with it, with Rubenfeld managing limited resources and wooden performances, with the stiffness of it all eventually shutting down any possible fun factor. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com