No Where To Run. No Where To Hide. For Everyone.
So yeah. The movie ends very… Patriotically? With our surviving cast carrying the Australian flag into battle. But as the movie ends…
We discover what I guess I suspected throughout. That the aliens aren’t there because it’s a Day Ending In WHY. Or Earth is the greatest piece of real estate in the Alpha Quadrant.
Nope. Which now calls into question the whole everything was flooded when the alien co!not ships showed up. Why? Because the final confrontation says…
Oh eait. Context. No more tragedy. So while the humans go to save the humans who are farm workers? Another group of humans infiltrate the facility ship to save those humans.
So remember how the aliens keep wandering away to follow the humans back to their bases? They did it again. A bunch show up to attack the military base. But they played this card one too many times.
This time? Their numbers are spread too thinly. Both units at the facility and attacking the humans are thus taken out. Anyway we need to complete the movie already so let’s go.
One of our cast, still carrying the holodevice gotten from the alien they beat to death? He plugs it into the facility’s systems. Turns out it’s that alien’s… Private momento drive. All its images of Earth. And all its images of home. It’s dead home world.
Suddenly the aliens, after eight months assimilating human DNA and knowledge? Can now speak Human English. Why? So they can dump all the knowledge Independence Day did in one Area51 tense interrogation scene here.
So they’re not parasitic aliens like the I-D aliens. Or to an extent the trans dimensionally hopping aliens of Pacific Rim. No. They… Ruined their own home world, and fled to find a home for their now nomadic species.
So according to the movie? The arrival of the colony fleet devastated coastal cities. Thing is… How? Ships aren’t massive enough to affect gravitational forces alone. And… This ending implies their fleet is on their last light years.
They reached Earth. But I think this ending implies the fleet is now for show. They don’t have the capacity to even attempt another relocation attempt. Like it or not, they’re as trapped on Earth now as the humans.
Suddenly it’s V The Final Battle as of Occupation Rainfall. Which means choose a side means the aliens can either join the humans as they must adapt to Earth. And live with the humans. Or fight on against them.
Who knows? Maybe by Movie 3 or 4 s new alien race will pop up and humans will have to fight with the black aliens to survive. After all its i!plied by this ending that the aliens ruined their own world. Maybe they didnt. Maybe something else destroyed it.
Movie 3? As of this review the Wiki is still vague about it. They want to make an Occupation Rainfall Chapter 2, but as of this review that’s all we know. They want to do it… But work has yet to begin.
MAYBE by 2024 or 2025 a third movie will appear. Maybe. Right now all I can say is that I have it on my watchlist. The minute new info on the next Occupation arrives? I’ll let you know.
For now, Occupation 2018 gets a 4 out of 5. It takes forever for the movie to get to its point. And once it does? Its… No real surprise. But hey. Rainfall did well enough to get another movie scheduled…
The only possible “rainfall” to dampen expectations? Rainfall 2021 cost about… 25 or so million Australian currency. And has zero info if it made any money in the box office or DVD sales. I know I bought both movies but… I couldn’t tell you what these movies earned.
It will be awhile yet before we can even begin to plan for Movie 3 so… Stay tuned. anyway that finally leads us into The Month Of Horror.
We begin the Month Of Horror in South Korea. And Seoul Station 2016. Though this is the first movie of the Busan trilogy? It’s in fact the second movie released.
Looking at the backs of the three movies DVDs? I get the feeling English audio tracks exist for Train To Busan and Peninsula. None exist for this movie. We will forge ahead anyway.
A homeless man forced to live in a Seoul train station becomes Zombie Zero, kickstarting an apocalyptic pandemic that leaves the Korean Peninsula a devastated nightmare zone.
But first and foremost? The Busan movies seemingly are about family. So watch as a family gets caught up in the opening days of the zombie pandemic.
How will they fare? Find out as we begin the Pacific Zombie Rim Job month with Seoul Station 2016. Proof positive you’re never too undead to brave the perils of mass transit. Coming up tomorrow. See you.