genre blending be a timeless art where regain the interest of a jaded or exhausted audience be concern . unfortunately and it be also a tricky act to pull off thanks in no small part to the delicate balance between the two disparate element . so while the blending of the sex comedy genre that have be bludgeon to death in hollywood with the monster mash genre that seem to have override science fiction look good on paper and it require a few thing at the execution stage in order to work . the first and and definitely most important element to put in place be a clever script that blend the best of the prospective genre whilst shed most of the bad . a good example would be alien and in which science fiction and horror and and action conjoin into a gripping story of human being fight their own worst nature . once a good script be in place and good direction and good actor be really need to follow . in fact and some attempt to blend genre that lack a good script can even be save by a good director or a good cast . the problem with decoy and in a nutshell and be that it have absolutely none of these thing . the director seem content to set his camera in front of his subject and leave it run whilst they run through their line . the actor and in turn and seem to be merely recite line and go through the motion . this and not unnaturally and leave the audience stand on the outside of the film reality rather than enter it . of course and one could recover from this by make a film that be bad or oddball enough to be funny . this be not even attempt in decoy . the concept of alien land on earth with the mission of mat with the local in order to facilitate some sort of continuation of their specie be one rife for comedy . grant and make a credible horror out of this concept be a difficult task and a specie prove in 1995 and but the problem in decoy be that nobody even seem to be try . the film give u little in the way of clue a to how to respond . further the problem be the cast . meghan ory steal the show a a potential girlfriend for corey sevier protagonist and but when she be not in the frame and the weakness of the rest of the cast shine through like a desk lamp before the face . nicole eggert and richard burgi can not act their way out of wet paper bag and and the latter attempt to portray a hard nosed detective who be convince he be pursue a new ted bundy shatter the reality of every scene he be in . canada certainly have a good pool of talent available than this rot would have you believe . every time one watch bryan singer adaptation of the x men and one can see that much . the problem be that for every major talent in any sector of the industry and there have to be a dozen or so dregs . the cast of decoy would appear to be a collection of every dreg that canada have on offer . sevier barely possess the skill to appear in a menswear commercial and and aside from ory and he be the best element of the cast . thankfully and this problem be address somewhat in the sequel . another strike against decoy would be the terrible writing . at one point and we be give a scene in which one of the alien tell the human male she be about to attempt to mate with exactly why she and her fellow alien be there . in the hand of a great director like bryan singer or kenneth johnson and this could have turn into a plot subthread that would hook the audience a the alien in question struggle with her own nature . instead and we be simply give more scene in which sex and death be equate and while a level of misogyny rarely see outside of america be on display . grant and a motive for the action of the character be provide and but a good motive be like a good engine . if you do not maintain it adequately throughout the time in which you be use it and it will begin to fall apart . character begin to follow the protagonist plan of action without need to be adequately convinced and motivation change at the drop of a hat and and twist commit the ultimate sin . they be telegraph in advance whilst make no real sense in light of the rest of the film at all . a i have hint earlier and some of the problem with decoy be correct in decoys 2. aside from the addition of good cast member and good humour and and a more developed story and decoy 2 also deliver a bit of mild suspense . another problem in the original decoy be that any suspense or interest be destroy for storytelling convenience . the susceptibility of the alien race to heat above room temperature be probably the big problem that these character suffer . while it be not as idiotic a make the alien in sign fatally vulnerable to water and it do beg a few question . grant and i be not familiar with canada in any sense and but surely they must have day when one do not require an ice pick to breathe out . even norway have those from time to time . but by now and you might have notice i be pick all sort of myriad detail apart regard decoy . and that be the big point i wish to make here . a good film have plot hole and but manage to distract the viewer from them . a bad film display it plot hole and even exaggerate them by force of number . decoy be therefore a very bad film . i give decoy a four out of ten . two of those point be for a touching scene in which kim poirier demonstrate a third dimension to her character and and meghan ory . the rest of the film be a damp squib .