I love sci-fi movies from the super-great to the cheesy "so-bad-they're-good" b-movies but I'd class this as a c-movie at best. The negative reviews are dead-on and I wish I hadn't wasted time on a movie that was so badly done.
The basic concept of aliens invading and easily wiping out the puny humans is great, I love that - it's fun to have an unhappy ending.. but the plot felt like it was typed out by monkeys while listening to sharp nails scrape along a mile-long chalkboard. I spent the entire movie waiting for it to start plot-wise. They totally ruined a great concept with a pathetic attempt not even worthy of direct-to-disc.
And the characters.. ya, I'm with everyone that couldn't wait for the aliens to kill them, just so I would be free of their 'acting'.. perhaps this was intentional to make the audience side with the aliens but the movie would've actually been better if all the actors had been sucked up in the first minute and we spent the rest of the movie just watching the aliens wipe out humanity. If the aliens were smart, they wouldn't touch those brains with a 10-foot sentinel tentacle.
The aliens definitely are a ripoff of the machines in the matrix and hopefully a well-deserved lawsuit will prevent a sequel from invading the earth.
Avoid this one.. it's not bad, it's super-bad and right up there with District 9 in the over-hyped, makes-a-good-commercial but "why did I want to watch this?" category of movies.
The basic concept of aliens invading and easily wiping out the puny humans is great, I love that - it's fun to have an unhappy ending.. but the plot felt like it was typed out by monkeys while listening to sharp nails scrape along a mile-long chalkboard. I spent the entire movie waiting for it to start plot-wise. They totally ruined a great concept with a pathetic attempt not even worthy of direct-to-disc.
And the characters.. ya, I'm with everyone that couldn't wait for the aliens to kill them, just so I would be free of their 'acting'.. perhaps this was intentional to make the audience side with the aliens but the movie would've actually been better if all the actors had been sucked up in the first minute and we spent the rest of the movie just watching the aliens wipe out humanity. If the aliens were smart, they wouldn't touch those brains with a 10-foot sentinel tentacle.
The aliens definitely are a ripoff of the machines in the matrix and hopefully a well-deserved lawsuit will prevent a sequel from invading the earth.
Avoid this one.. it's not bad, it's super-bad and right up there with District 9 in the over-hyped, makes-a-good-commercial but "why did I want to watch this?" category of movies.