oh god . where to start . africa a couple of thousand year ago represent native dance and beat drum . alien arrive in a huge disco light and be greet by the chief . the alien present their half of a weird key and obtain something from a mysterious underground chamber . a they take off the ship be strike by lightning and crash . kaboom . africa the present day represent a husband wife archaeological team be dig the remains of an ancient hill top site . the husband be convince alien visit the place many year ago . the wife be sceptical . the husband go to visit their photogenically die son in hospital . the wife find half of the the mysterious maguffin alien key . she fax a scan of it to her evil bos ( we know he evil because he get a beard ) before drive to meet her husband . deep underground in the remains of the space ship and one of the alien droids wake up and set off in pursuit stop only to learn english by read the label on the bottom of a fax machine and don a nifty flowing coat that just happen to be his size . lady archaeologist be attack by droid . lady archeolgist escape . lady archaeologist try to deliver maguffin to evil bos henchman but see droid and run away . from here to end of movie car chase and gun and and explosion in random order until everyone end up in another mysterious underground chamber just like the first one ( they build a spare . ) where the maguffin key thing turn sunlight and cave water into the elixir . more shooting . all the bad guy die . alien droid find his home planet be no more and give the elixir to the archaeologist to cure their photogenically die child . roll credit . take dvd out of player . throw dvd in dustbin . the end . dumb dumb movie . which be a pity . the camera work and location be great and some of the acting be adequate . someone spend some money on this . but the script . oh so bad bad bad bad bad it be beyond a joke . no one could deliver that stuff . stupid unanswered question include ( amongst many many others ) representhow do the lady archaeologist send the email . every time she try to call anyone local over the windup telephone we have an amusing interlude with the ineffectual local operator and and her rustic plug and wire switchboard and yet emails zip across the world to evil mastermind in second and complete with colour graphic and computery pinging noise . how can hire killer goon miss everything they shoot at even arm with automatic weapon . ( mild mannered archaeologist and on the other hand and can knock people dead from vast distance with one shot from vintage service revolver they have just pick up . ) how do an alien race capable of interstellar travel manage to get anywhere with shuttle ship that fall out of the sky when strike by lightning . normal commercial civil jet be usually strike about once a year and which amount to about once every 3 and 000 flying hour and and will frequently trigger lightning by fly through cloud . pretty dumb bunch of alien . very dumb movie . it lower my iq by several point .