I am going to quote a previous reviewer, mats_carcass, who put the problem with this film most succinctly:
"Ingredients: 2 Parts E.T. 1 Part The Terminator 1 Part Indepedance Day Rind of The Matrix pretty much every action movie cliché"
Yet while I respect the perceptions of the reviewer I quote, I must disagree as to the entertainment value of the film; I liked the characters enough that I found their story entertaining, and the pacing was good, with a enough plot twists to allow me to ignore the derivative nature of the whole project. Laso, it is well made, and the importance of that to a derivative film can't be overestimated. If it moves as well as the films it imitates, then I don't mind wasting a little time with it.
I also warn the viewer not to turn the movie off at the point the main plot seems resolved. The last ten minutes are actually the best thing about the story, because they leave us with questions that the main story line only implies.
"Ingredients: 2 Parts E.T. 1 Part The Terminator 1 Part Indepedance Day Rind of The Matrix pretty much every action movie cliché"
- all true; and add as well an actress with a face that would look great in a manga cartoon and a popular young Chinese actor doing what popular young Chinese actors do in action films these days.
Yet while I respect the perceptions of the reviewer I quote, I must disagree as to the entertainment value of the film; I liked the characters enough that I found their story entertaining, and the pacing was good, with a enough plot twists to allow me to ignore the derivative nature of the whole project. Laso, it is well made, and the importance of that to a derivative film can't be overestimated. If it moves as well as the films it imitates, then I don't mind wasting a little time with it.
I also warn the viewer not to turn the movie off at the point the main plot seems resolved. The last ten minutes are actually the best thing about the story, because they leave us with questions that the main story line only implies.