Aliens already on Earth have implanted humans with mind control devices to be used for the upcoming takeover.Ā Little Tammy accidentally becomes part of the secret resistanceās plan, and itās up to her mother, Karen Mackaphe (Marcia Cross), and police detective, Sam Adams (Christopher Meloni), to save her and the planet.
Thereās lots of ways to save money when making a television alien movie, but only showing the spaceships in crayon drawings is a new one.Ā But then, Target Earth could have been written by kids with crayons.Ā The story is tolerable, if underfed, but this is old stuff.Ā Any six-year-old could construct the script from pieces of previous films.Ā I say āconstructā as I canāt see that anyone actually wrote anythingāJust cut and pasted from a few dozen older invasion films.
The cast is above the material. Meloni gets by as the lead, but Cross is excellent and believable as an average mother tossed into an impossible situation.Ā Too bad the performance wasnāt in a different film.Ā Trace Dinwiddle is also good as the sexy female cop; thereās no reason for her to have had so few decent roles.Ā Dabney Coleman as a Senator in-the-know does the same thing he does in every other film, which isnāt a bad thing. Chad Lowe is the one actor who canāt find his way, portraying the alien leader as if heās on a high dosage of Prozac.
The filmās high points, which only register as small bumps, belong to John C. McGinley, who boldly attempts to bring some fun to this black hole of mediocrity. His dynamic, Agent Naples even makes a few of his lines enjoyable, but it is far too little.