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Two years after the events of the original Occupation: Earth has been pretty much overrun by the alien invaders, and most of humankind has been killed, but there's still pockets of resistance, like in Sydney, Australia - but eventually even this town must fall, forcing the survivors into a secret underground army base the size if a full-blown city run by Commander Hayes (Daniel Gillis), a big time alien hater who admittedly might be a smart tactician, but at the same time his methods are often questionable to criminal. So Amelia, who has long campaigned for peaceful co-existance between human and aliens, doesn't trust him one bit - and eventually finds out he keeps aliens in a secret dungeon where he has them tortured and experimented on, in order to develop some gas to commit genocide on them. Ultimately Hayes is relieved from his post for that, but then the aliens launch an attack on the army base, and the cards are re-shuffled ...

Meanwhile, manly man Matt (Dan Ewing), alien collaborator Garry (Lawrence Makoare) and youngster Marcus (Trystan Go) have mounted a mission to track down project Rainfall, something the aliens seem to be desparate to get their hands on but have no clue where to find it. But somehow our heroes have found a clue to its location, which means a trip across the country on carnivorous horse-like alien creatures, and they run into lots of aliens, but also a village of human survivors - who promptly want to lynch Garry -, and find two more companions in war veteran Peter (Temura Morrison) and his daughter Bella (Izzy Stevens). Eventually they reach the location of Rainfall, a secret American army base abandoned by all but clumsy Bud (Ken Jeong) and his wise-cracking alien friend Steve (Ben Chisholm, voiced by Jason Isaacs), and the find out Rainfall is actually a giant meteor, the one that triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs - and that might have been an alien projectile, launched to shape earth to their liking ...

Now it's of course true that much of the story of Occupation: Rainfall has been seen elsewhere before, actually in scores of similarly themed science fiction movies and TV shows, and despite up-to-date and pretty impressive CGI effects work, one can't help but being reminded of 1980s mach action cinema every now and again. But that all said, despite the slightly derivative nature of the film, and even its slight cheesiness in parts, one can't denie how well it's put together, telling a story of epic proportions with hardly a moment to catch one's breath, with relatable characters and cool alien designs. Basically it's a very entertaining genre ride - and one that's easily comprehensible if one hasn't seen the first Occupation, despite this being a direct sequel.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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