How to waste two million dollars

Like other reviewers have commented I'm not sure why the SyFy channel bothers making these low budget films. Some of the acting was reasonable but the special effects were worse than the early (wonderful for their day) ones used for the 1984 film 'The Last Starfighter'.

The aliens were ok though but nothing original was made of the invasion story. I guess the channel must make some of their money back on DVD sakes and selling it abroad - but why not stop making a string of low quality - low budget films and save up for something decent - another film in the Starship troopers series perhaps.

But I suppose some SyFy exec pitched this film as something different.

'Look guys this film is going to be great and original' 'Forget about the rubbish we've produced in the past - this is the one!'

'Ok it's about a giant spaceship which comes into Earth orbit - ok?' 'Then it launches smaller ships and from these come fighter ships that have force fields ok?'

'Major cities get attacked and there's no hope cause the aliens are bullet proof see?''So there's no hope but along come a group of old age pensioners who use one of the alien craft to infiltrate the mother ship and blow it up - ok?'

'Then these pensioners who have blown up the mother ship lose their physic link and crash land in the desert - but they all survive and end up hugging each other - the end'