Watched this with no expectations or preconceptions and it could have worked. There were bits that missed and it might be those bits were cut but it didn't improve the film. Some of the acting was iffy, There'd be a quite bit where the characters were talking then they'd hit a line that was a bit more intense and it gets delivered like it's a battle command under fire.
I understand people think the ship only held 20 odd people, but it crashes and a good likelihood that hundreds could have died. The miracle is that anyone survived and that they weren't all mangled. Why couldn't that have had liferafts trigger before the crash that would smooth that wrinkle.
Several times a chameleon is killed and yet no-one tried to investigate the creature ( is the invisibility a natural power or a suit ? ) Military would want to know their enemy. Plus the aliens have plasma weapons yet no-one tried to grab one for the first half the film.
3 people rush off frame, enter next frame the female version of Mr Benn has 'appeared' with them with no explanation.
The red jump suited people, All with their jumpsuits ripped off just below the groin. Clothes split at knees first and 2 years would either have the suits battered or all ripped. Poor wardrobe. Plus they might as well have made the suits red-shirts.
why go from cover to rush out to the waters edge while the craft is flying overhead. Ditch the orange jumpsuits and crawl in 2's out into the open. What was the trained military bloke thinking? He smears himself with mud which fades and returns between takes.
The cameo girls face marking fade and return, at night in the spacecraft she pretty much has a green face with brow markings.
Some weirdness with the aborigines results in them teaming up and providing a trove of 'ancestor' weapons. So you have aborigines skilled with primitive weapons, military skilled with firearms so how do they divvy up the weapons, yep you guess it the natives gets the firearms and energy weapons and the military carry on with their bent sticks and bent stick arrows.
Bent sticks with string makes a bow.. Yes it does if your 9 playing robin hood but come on? lashing a bundle of bamboo together would give a better effect as it would actually take some effort to bend. Bent sticks for arrows with no fletchings, nocks or head would do nothing. Though please watch you'll see the bent stick come off the string and be shuffled back by the actor, An arrowhead appears on the arrow over the hand but wide shot shows the bent stick off behind. The Black guys bow becomes a real kiddy bow near the end neat planed edges.
A Bamboo spear would be easier to make and more effective so why did film makers go for crappy bows and arrows.
The Boat. Their running towards the river then say 'there it is' and low there is a boat. Boat who knew there was a boat ? ( Cut scene maybe? ) Boats a black rubber boat covered in grass. Couldn't they have uses a wooden canoe and covered it or made a log raft effect. It looked so fake. Scroll on a bit and you see them paddling the next scene the 'Mr Benn' woman sailing over the waterfall on her own. ( her teleport wasn't working right ) pan back to the others and there all in the water. What happened to the boat.
The Dragon thing. Killed by a flare in the mouth and lightly slashing it's belly with a knife. It dies instantly, no trashing around for hours as disemboweling isn't instantly fatal. Plus a small combat knife is unlikely to go through the hide on a leaf slide attack.
what was the final calculations 25000 years? Yet the rock work was still crisp. Mountains have eroded in that timeframe before? Final quirk, Invade, Terraform then have minimum population living there to study the indigenous lifeforms. Why? Writers and props guys should have looked at the pictures in kiddy books. The armies through the ages would have given the natives better weapon and perhaps if they'd read on of the old declassified military training manuals they'd have come up with better survival gear. It's like they had an interesting idea but thought they knew enough to do it on their own without research. Fewer factual problems might have given the actors a better chance to play their parts properly.
I understand people think the ship only held 20 odd people, but it crashes and a good likelihood that hundreds could have died. The miracle is that anyone survived and that they weren't all mangled. Why couldn't that have had liferafts trigger before the crash that would smooth that wrinkle.
Several times a chameleon is killed and yet no-one tried to investigate the creature ( is the invisibility a natural power or a suit ? ) Military would want to know their enemy. Plus the aliens have plasma weapons yet no-one tried to grab one for the first half the film.
3 people rush off frame, enter next frame the female version of Mr Benn has 'appeared' with them with no explanation.
The red jump suited people, All with their jumpsuits ripped off just below the groin. Clothes split at knees first and 2 years would either have the suits battered or all ripped. Poor wardrobe. Plus they might as well have made the suits red-shirts.
why go from cover to rush out to the waters edge while the craft is flying overhead. Ditch the orange jumpsuits and crawl in 2's out into the open. What was the trained military bloke thinking? He smears himself with mud which fades and returns between takes.
The cameo girls face marking fade and return, at night in the spacecraft she pretty much has a green face with brow markings.
Some weirdness with the aborigines results in them teaming up and providing a trove of 'ancestor' weapons. So you have aborigines skilled with primitive weapons, military skilled with firearms so how do they divvy up the weapons, yep you guess it the natives gets the firearms and energy weapons and the military carry on with their bent sticks and bent stick arrows.
Bent sticks with string makes a bow.. Yes it does if your 9 playing robin hood but come on? lashing a bundle of bamboo together would give a better effect as it would actually take some effort to bend. Bent sticks for arrows with no fletchings, nocks or head would do nothing. Though please watch you'll see the bent stick come off the string and be shuffled back by the actor, An arrowhead appears on the arrow over the hand but wide shot shows the bent stick off behind. The Black guys bow becomes a real kiddy bow near the end neat planed edges.
A Bamboo spear would be easier to make and more effective so why did film makers go for crappy bows and arrows.
The Boat. Their running towards the river then say 'there it is' and low there is a boat. Boat who knew there was a boat ? ( Cut scene maybe? ) Boats a black rubber boat covered in grass. Couldn't they have uses a wooden canoe and covered it or made a log raft effect. It looked so fake. Scroll on a bit and you see them paddling the next scene the 'Mr Benn' woman sailing over the waterfall on her own. ( her teleport wasn't working right ) pan back to the others and there all in the water. What happened to the boat.
The Dragon thing. Killed by a flare in the mouth and lightly slashing it's belly with a knife. It dies instantly, no trashing around for hours as disemboweling isn't instantly fatal. Plus a small combat knife is unlikely to go through the hide on a leaf slide attack.
what was the final calculations 25000 years? Yet the rock work was still crisp. Mountains have eroded in that timeframe before? Final quirk, Invade, Terraform then have minimum population living there to study the indigenous lifeforms. Why? Writers and props guys should have looked at the pictures in kiddy books. The armies through the ages would have given the natives better weapon and perhaps if they'd read on of the old declassified military training manuals they'd have come up with better survival gear. It's like they had an interesting idea but thought they knew enough to do it on their own without research. Fewer factual problems might have given the actors a better chance to play their parts properly.