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This movie was far better than the original because, to me, it was far more realistic. In the original the woman seduces the men that raped her. Really? Do you think any man would willingly let a women that he just raped seduce him? Even an amoeba would know that she's just out for revenge - not to mention that keeping her around would add to jail time. Secondly, the original movie went straight from rape to revenge without even trying to contact the authorities before she was safe. Luckily the second movie had the authorities angle covered.

Here's were (like the first movie) it goes off track. In the first movie this tiny woman is able to pull on a rope to hand her first victim. Come on! They could have at least set it up with a little more leverage to make it believable. Perhaps a bowed branched that is tied down and then released to carry the man's weight. In the second movie, this tiny woman apparently also obtains super human strength by being able to move and lift these huge men after she knocks them out.

Then there's the satisfaction angle. You really want these guys to get what they deserve. In the first movie the protagonists were more stupid than vile, so the satisfaction quotient just wasn't there. It was like killing a retarded bunny rabbit that accidentally got in your garden. The second movie did a much better job of making you hate the low life scum that compromised the protagonists. However, even with the elaborate setups the satisfaction quotient wasn't there for me (much better than the first movie, but still not there). It would have been better if she made them do the things that they did to her before she tortured and killed them. For instance, it would have been great if she made the sheriff's wife watch the video of the rape so she would know what a low-life he was before he died. Better yet, how about maiming these guys and not killing them so they would have to live with their agony.

Both movies loose it at the end. Both movies cop out by rolling credits. No true closure.

I didn't expect much from this film. I figured it would be a campy 1980s horror flick. Let's face it, if you've seen Linda Blair act before, then you know this movie can't be all that good. The only time she did a convincing performance was in the Exorcist and even then the makeup and effects pretty much did all the acting for her.

I watched this movie anyway so I could see the "exciting" and "clever" ending, of which many of the other reviewer have spoken. Are they kidding? "Exciting," "clever"? All she did was drive the car into a fence and the guy got impaled. So what? It wasn't even that good and certainly not worth sitting through the rest of the movie. There wasn't even nudity to give this movie at least some value. Even when they came close to nudity it was the most lame sex scene that I'd ever seen in my life. Basically it was two kids in their underwear rolling on the bed and laughing and talking, the scene of which was peppered nearly throughout the entire movie.

Sorry other reviewers, this movie isn't worth the time to watch it.

This had to be the most stupid and boring movie that I ever saw in my life. Some other reviewers felt the movie would have been better if it had a bigger budget. No, it would not. If anything they should have started with a coherent script.

Basically, these guys catch an alien and take it to a friend's house who was abducted the longest. OK, so let's start with the Alien. When you finally see it, it looks like a cheap Halloween mask (blatantly plastic and phony looking). That being said, I guess special effects aren't their thing.

When they bring the alien to this guy's house he has an arsenal of weapons ready to kill any alien that returns to claim him. However, he keeps warning his buddies not to kill the alien that they captured because it would mean the other aliens would wipe out the human race. Really? If this alien was so easy to capture, and if it was so easy to kill in the end, then I seriously doubt that this species has the ability to wipe out humanity. Later, his girl friend keeps trying to leave, but when she finally gets to go she says "I'm not leaving you." What? She's been trying to leave all night and now she's in love again and not leaving her man when he tells her to go?

Later the alien has escapes and holds one of his friends hostage by pulling out the guy's lower intestines and grasping them as if to rip them totally out of the guys body. When the friends are at a standoff with the alien (the alien holding the intestines as if to pull them totally out of cut them in half and the guys with guns fixed on the alien) the friends decide it would be better to wrestle the alien while it's holding their friend's intestines rather than just putting a cap in it's head before it can pull the intestines. I'm not kidding, you can't make this stuff up people.

In the end, the friend who keeps saying not to kill the alien returns with a shotgun in his hands. Why? If killing the alien is the end of humanity, then why a shotgun? BTW, how does being abducted as a child give him this great knowledge of knowing that killing this alien would be the end of humanity?

Let's get back to the girlfriend. At the end she walks in like a bad-ass and kills the alien by putting a cap in its head. Then, later, she's frozen by fear. Then later she's a bad ass again. This goes on through the entire movie folks. After they kill the alien a whole bunch of other aliens come to exact their revenge. The house is surrounded by aliens breaking their way in. So the guy takes the girlfriend under the house where he has a bunker with a detonator to blow up the house should aliens invade it. Now he blows up the house, killing I don't know how many aliens. Keep in mind that this is the guy that kept telling his friends not to kill the first alien and watch the alien kill his friends one-by-one because killing the alien would have resulted in the end of humanity.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that they keep saying not to look in to the aliens eyes or it will take you over, which it did when the girlfriend looked in to it's eyes. However, later in the movie one of the friends is torturing the alien and looking directly in to it's eyes with no problem. This goes back and forth throughout the movie. First the alien has the power to hypnotize, then it doesn't.

At the conclusion, they guy kills all these aliens and guess what? No invasion, no mass extinction. Instead, he and the girlfriend ride off into the sunset.

That's the movie - judge for yourselves people.

First, let me say that it was refreshing to see Josh Peck in a role other than the vanilla Nickelodeon stuff. Quite honestly, he did a pretty good job playing the arrogant A-hole. That being said, the rest of the movie was a train wreck.

First, as is always the case with cheaply written horror, the villain is indestructible (Superman couldn't kill this guy). Then, of course, the actions of the protagonists are totally unrealistic. For instance, the moment they realized the guy was a threat they could have bolted in three different directions. Or, the two guys could have fought him off while the girl ran for help. But, of course, they would rather spend the night being terrified and freezing to death.

Then there was the uncanny ability of the antagonist to know exactly what everyone was doing and where they would be so he would always be there to meet them wherever they ran. Oh, did I mention that the guy could also out run anyone he was chasing, even though he was bulked up in a thick heavy parka? Which also begs the fact of how he was able to know where everyone is without peripheral vision.

At one part I was totally turned off because one of the victims makes a run for it and it looks like he runs right in to the villain. However, upon looking closer I saw that the villain had set up a trip wire, which still didn't explain how the villain was so close to the victim after he hit the wire.

The best part was when he cops arrived. An entire army of police cars and fire engines are responding to a trashed ATM and they decide to arrest only one of the two potential suspects at the scene (the one that looks beaten and battered), while letting the other one simply walk away. They didn't even detain him to be a material witness. If those kind of cops lived around here, then I'd get rich robbing banks.

I eagerly held my breath as the movie drew to an end with the hopes that there would be some kind of closure and the movie would redeem itself. It was wishful thinking. They tried to explain all this away by showing the villain in a storage unit with drawings and layouts to show that he planned the entire thing. Yeah right, knowing the layout of an ATM and the range of the cameras allowed him to plan who would show up, when they would show up, where they would be when they showed up, how he would magically be everywhere somebody was so he could sucker punch them and then beat them to death, and how he could anticipate human behavior so the victim would be mistaken as the perpetrator. Of course, they also showed that the victim broke the ATM cameras when he tried to get the ATMs to malfunction and call for help, so the camera's didn't record the ending. However, I fail to see how anyone would believe he would be inside the ATM, drive two cars in to each other and the ATM, put a dummy in a chair and light him on fire, and then lie down in agony with his eyes burning. Also, the available video begs the question of why these three kids spent the night freezing inside of the ATM, unless they were afraid to go outside (and that includes the kid that got set-up).

The bottom line is this movie has been done before with a lot more class and originality (Halloween, Jason, Phone Booth). If you want to see something more realistic, then I suggest you watch Alice in Wonderland instead.

Guy Pierce was pretty good in the action genre but way too stereotypical. This could have been a good movie if they didn't make it so ridiculous.

First, halfway through the movie Pierce finally gets the President's daughter to an escape pod. If they had let her leave and had him carry the second half of the movie alone it may have been salvageable. However, they decided to go the predictable route and, of course, she stays behind so he can get the girl in the end.

On top of this you have spaceships being blown out of the sky by the prison's defenses because they have to fly close in order to plant a bomb to blow up the prison. Gee, you would think that technology in the future would have gone forward and now backward. What I mean is that the technology of today would be to simply send a missile to destroy a space station without the need to endanger a bunch of space ships like it was StarWars and the death star.

Let's see what else: Oh yeah, they are able to survive re-entry to the earths atmosphere from space wearing beefed up space suits that have so many rough edges and kinks they would have burnt up in a matter of seconds.

Basically, the movie was a bad cartoon with a bunch of predictable and hammy actors.

The movie starts out pretty good and I have to say its well acted and will keep you fairly entertained for the first forty minutes or so. However half way through the victims start turning the tables, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times (maybe more, I wasn't really counting) and don't kill this guy or incapacitate him to the point where he is no longer a danger. Their refusal to do this is stunning considering he severed all the fingers in one guy's hands, ran over the other guy, almost suffocated one girl, and had the first guys throat slashed. Despite his ineptness, the villain couldn't fail because he had everything going for him (his victims were incredibly stupid, he had more lives than Michael Myers, and he had superhuman powers that allowed him to survive and heal whenever he got hurt along with the ability to magically show up in the right place at the right time throughout the entire movie). By the end of the movie I was cheering for the villain because the supposed hereon was so inept I figured she deserved to die. Thank God the movie ended the way it did, because it would have been very frustrating, and even more unbelievable, if she was able to pull off an escape in the 11th hour (when it was more impossible than ever) considering that she had multiple opportunities throughout the movie and refused to act. At least she stayed consistent and didn't finish the guy off in her final attempt. On the other hand, the villain was pretty inept also in that he allowed his victims to gain the upper hand so many times that it was making me dizzy. Heck, there's one scene that shows a drawer full of drivers licenses of all the women that this guy abducted over the past five years. How could this have been? After five years of experience these two girls got the upper hand so many times that I can't believe no one had overtaken this guy in his prior attempts. Basically, this movie was like watching a battle between dumb and dumber and wondering which one would come out on top.

I gave this movie a "5" for the action, good acting, and great effects (except for the baby effect - that was the phoniest birth I ever saw in my life). However, this movie could have been sooooo much better! Why make God the bad guy just to be original when there's so much material already in the Bible that could have been used without insulting the viewer's intelligence. If they made this movie just a little different (maybe focusing more on the "legion" demon than using Angels as the "bad" guys) there wouldn't have been any holes and the writers wouldn't have struggled to try to make sense of things by just adding more loose ends.

Good premise, bad execution.

This movie has all the elements of a good thriller: A good cast with great acting abilities, a wonderfully creepy setting, and a story that leaves no loose ends (this is the spoiler for those of you that didn't get it - DiCaprio was cured but chose to be lobotomized than to live with his crime). So, all the elements were there but they just didn't come together, the twist was easily figured early in the movie and then the rest was just boring filler while you waited for him to "get it." In fact, after the first 30 minutes I found myself fast forwarding through the scenes just to arrive at the end sooner so I could be out of my misery.

The movie is neither original nor clever and leaves way too many loose ends. Unlike Ground Hog Day, where you were entertained with each new twist in the loop (where Bill Murray learned from each past experience), this movie just looped nearly the same crap over and over again until you wished it was you being killed. I stuck it through thinking that there had better be a very clever ending to make this movie worth my while (and money) and then they end it with a letdown worse than the Sopranos.

At least tie up the loose ends and give the viewer some sense of closure. For instance, was the son always Autistic - or did he only become that way after he saw his mother murdered? Why did her personality change to the point that she was now a loving mother instead of an abusive bitch - what caused that to happen? If she's continually following the same loop then she would know that her son will continually die so why did she want to go to the harbor to live it all over again? At the end the viewer is given the impression that she mentally blocked out the past and didn't know what she was getting back into (except on a subconscious level) but that doesn't tie together because she obviously went to the harbor with a determined goal and even told the Taxi driver that she would return. All this could have been fixed if the writers bothered to take the time and develop the characters and story, which they chose not to do. Instead they created a nonsensical, open ended movie and thought "gee people will think this is clever."

I agree with almost all the reviews. The movie, which did keep my interest and was worth a watch, wasn't the best I've ever seen. However, nobody seems to get the ending. The doctor at the hospital (and his wife) were the two people that survived the steam room. They survived because they were plants and working with Val Kilmer. They were in the steam room as part of the experiment to see (and be) the human chaos up front. So the third to last surviver was correct (and not delusional) when he suspected them. Apparently, this doctor became interested in Val Kilmer's experiment and chose to help him carry it out. However, the doctor's motives were not to stop global warming but to better understand by being a part of the human social breakdown (either that or he and his wife were just out for some sick thrills).

Slightly better than the Grudge 2 but it's more of the same stuff. If you've seen the Grudge before then don't expect to be surprised. The only good thing is the opening scene and that all three movies are connected (a continuation of the same story). Grudge 3 sets it's fury on the Chicago apartment building where the Grudge2 left off. So if you want to see what happens after the point that the Grudge2 ended then this will give you that closure.The first movie was new, I'm now finding this storyline as old and tiresome.

***SPOILER**** As in all the Grudge movies the door is left open at the end so don't expect complete closure unless there's a Grudge4.

Don't get me wrong, I wanted to like this movie. It was well acted, had lots of action and suspense and was captivating. However, it just died at the end, with no explanation and no closure. It's almost like they decided to go ahead and make the movie and end it abruptly because of the writer's strike.

Tommy Lee Jones was brilliant but his character was totally unnecessary and very poorly developed. Woody Haralson could also have been left out of the movie all together and it would have been just as good.

Come on people; let's put our precociousness aside and rate the movie for what it is... a let down. The final episode of the Soprano's had more closure than this thing. It sort of ended like an old Hill Street Blues episode - cut to black. But at least with Hill Street Blues there was always another episode the next week to fill in the blanks.

Overall I have to give this movie a 2 for wasting my time.

I was in 10th grade when Space 1999 was first released and being a science major I became an instant fan. Funny enough I never liked Star Trek (too many precocious clichés and unbelievable stuff). However, I loved Space 1999. Although many criticize it for not being realistic, it was the most realistic SciFi show about space available to that date (with the exception of "2001 A Space Odyssey"). It showed us how we (humanity) might deal with the real situation of being hurled away from the Earth; heck they even had a Physicist as a main character; how much more real can you get? I watched each episode of the first season religiously and remember it among the most fond times of my life.

I still remember being all psyched up for the first episode of the second season. I even got my Dad to relinquish the living room television and watch it with me (a Herculean task). All it took was the new intro for me to instantly become discouraged (which was really horrible compared to the dramatic and well scored intro of the first season). Then I saw Maya and thought "Oh my God! are these people for real?" This woman was a Star Trek refugee with the most ridiculous make-up and eyebrows that looked like modeling clay. Also she had a power that bordered on the magical; heck they may as well have made Merlin the Magician a character also. By the time the episode was over my heart was broken. They took a visually realistic scientific atmosphere and turned it into a cheap rip off of Star Trek. My father looked at me in disbelief and said "I can't believe this is the show that you get so excited about every week." I tried watching another season two episode but couldn't even sit through it and never watched the show again. Recently I purchased the DVD set (season one only) and have been happy to re-live the genius that was this show.

As for those that say it was boring, like all first seasons the show was developing a direction and was positioned for a killer second season (before they butchered it without giving it a chance to grow that is). I'm convinced that had the original theme been pursued the second season would have been more exciting while still maintaining its scientifically realistic roots – truly a loss for a truly brilliant show.

Favorite character was probably Victor, but liked Martin Landau and loved seeing Barbara Bain each week (which fed a crush I had on her since the Mission Impossible days).