Opening scene of movie:

Capsule with precious cargo returns from space voyage, detaches from mother, and hurtles down towards Earth. The cargo? Extraterrestrial samples! Two Hollywood stunt pilots, Buzz and Jax, are employed to try to catch the sucker as it falls. But the parachute fails! The capsule crashes in the desert!

Close-up on capsule. A tiny green feeler probes tentatively at the crack in the capsule...

Typical bad slash good slash bad sci-fi movie, right? Except everything in the first paragraph is true. Except the names of the pilots, which you may attribute to creative license...