By the end of the original miniseries, the Visitors had taken over the world the Nazi way and were well on their way in their plan to harvest the planet's recources: water and humans. The only voice of dissent was a small but growing resistance movement aided by Visitor 5th columnists. The Last Battle continues the story up to the point of the human's first major victory in getting the Visitors to leave and stay gone. In total, the two series are basically one long eight hour mininseries composed of five 90-100 minute parts.

The Last Battle isn't nearly as well made as the original series but is still extremely enjoyable. Plot holes, editing mistakes, leaps in logic and loose threads abound. The pace slows down considerably as the story settles into a series of hit and run resistance assaults culminating in the final two pronged "red dust" assault. The fascinating ideas concerning freedom and resistance discussed in the first series are replaced for the most part with a bunch of fairly competently staged action scenes, each culminating in the death and or capture of at least one resistance fighter.

The most interesting plot thread involves the pregnancy and birth of the first ever interstellar babies and moral and ethical questions it raises. Also, the dilemma over what to do with the Visitor fifth columnists was intriguing to me and I wish the series had discussed it to greater detail. They aren't human and they betrayed their own people (for the right reason) but the question remains how they will fit into a postwar human society that will, most likely, want them dead, friend or foe.

Unfortunately, slowing down the pace exposes the bad acting for what it is. You know you're in trouble when Michael Ironside qualifies as "the talent". Out of the five story parts, he is in only the last two and he plays a stereotypical macho hardliner. Otherwise, we are stuck with good looking second tier talents like Marc Singer, Jane Badler and Faye Grant. Their spirits are willing but the acting is weak.

All in all, The Last Battle is very enjoyable but with several caveats.