Deep Space (1988)

When a government experiment in outer space goes awry and crashes to Earth, the creature aboard - a dormant killing machine - is revived, which is unfortunate since control over the creature is questionable at best.  It always amazes me that whenever scientists  make a creature that's a killer, they never figure out a fool proof way to destroy it in case they lose control.

In another story line soon to intersect, two buddy cops involved in a shoot out turn in their guns until internal affairs can clear them of wrong doing.  They end up at the crash site and grab two rocks that look like over sized pecans in order to conduct their own experiments, which as you'd expect go horribly wrong.

First rule of mystery items that fall from outer space?  Do not stick your hand into them, poke them, or crack them  open.  Second rule?  Don't wander through a crash site or take home inexplicable items as souvenirs.

Unintentional comedy is achieved when our hero flings an alien bug off a doctor and onto his girlfriend.  His girlfriend is a cop.  She is extremely useless.  She freaks out over anything that happens.  I'd hate to call the cops and have her show up.

Also the foley was ridiculous.  Footsteps sounded like horses, or like kids hitting upside down plastic cups against a table top.  It was really distracting.