Sentinel

 Sometimes you wonder why a movie gets a 5.3 review rating, and Sentinel is one of such movies.

Not because it was decent, no, it was so bad you feel a 3, tops a 4, would been high enough of a rating for this trainwreck of a movie.

Remember those bad acting, poor CGI budget movies and sci-fi series from the beginning of the 2000's?  Well, that's what we have her, except it is 2024 and with the most simple desktop you can create better effects with free software, manner of speaking.  So now you have an idea of what to expect if you decide to watch it after the synopsis below.

When an alien invasion wipes out most of humanity on Earth in 2155, coming through a portal, the survivors retreated to a mining colony on the dark side of the moon.  Decades later, using DNA technology, scientists pick three soldiers to go and set things right.  Damon, Jarrod and Robin travel back to Earth to seek out any resistance left and battle the aliens.

However, upon arrival things go wrong, all three scattered and unable to contact each other.  They come face to face with zombie survivors and a beast called The Sentinel that protects the portal.  But then it turns out they are not scattered in distance, but in time from each other, and the actions of one in a timeline allows the others to do something more in theirs.  Eventually, even though Jarrod falls, they manage to overcome the beast, as it travels to the Moon.

There, the military face it, before the bar bouncer shoots it to high heaven with a harpoon cannon.  Enter dramatic entry scene of the bloke, and then he has to yell for someone to toss him a charge to actually fire the thing, which is standing on the bar... he could just have put it in himself if you ask me before marching out totally bad-assery style.

On Earth, Robin meets with a seriously aged Damon, as she found him in her timeline.  Now they want to plan to return to the moon, where in the closing moments the monster is seen to open it's eyes again and grab the harpoon.  Because of course we all leave a supposedly dead megawarrior just lying in the gangways after all...

It's a terrible movie, not even the campiness saving it some grace, and even though it has some form of cliffhanger ending we will in all probability seen the last of this.  Think of it as a fan movie that somehow found it's way to a wide audience release instead of a fun YouTube project...