I am extremely surprised at the critical reception this movie has gotten. Because of it's critical acclaim I walked into the movie theater hoping to see a great movie. What I got was a movie that was so boring and full of so many clichés that I began to wonder if it was just me. My friends also felt the exact same way, it turned out. Practically nothing happens at all in the entire movie. The story is extremely predictable. The dialog is equally bad. One has to look far and wide to see a movie with worse dialog than this. The hero is very unlikable and dumb, in everything he does. While watching the movie it was extremely clear after 10 minutes that these two main characters had to come together, even though there was no chemistry at all between them. It is just mandatory in a movie of this sort. But the way it was handled was so bad and in an unbelievable way. At the end when we finally got to see an alien it was like watching some extremely bad TV CGI at work. It seemed like the director didn't know at all of what is was doing. An extremely badly handled love story, a story about aliens without seeing them, save for three or four very short scene always at night, and an unbelievability of what the world is like when invaded by a aliens.
I would have loved to know more about the aliens, if they had intelligence, what they thought about humans, why they attack humans. Starship Troopers at least had the intelligence to spoof about the attitude toward something that is not human (and i loved Starship Troopers). I love any movie with a good script, good director and/or good actors to play the parts. This movie had neither. The movie's 90 minutes felt like three hours.
I would advise people to steer clear of this piece of crap. There is nothing redeeming about this movie. If I could demand my money back from the movie theater, I would. Don't go and see this movie.
I would have loved to know more about the aliens, if they had intelligence, what they thought about humans, why they attack humans. Starship Troopers at least had the intelligence to spoof about the attitude toward something that is not human (and i loved Starship Troopers). I love any movie with a good script, good director and/or good actors to play the parts. This movie had neither. The movie's 90 minutes felt like three hours.
I would advise people to steer clear of this piece of crap. There is nothing redeeming about this movie. If I could demand my money back from the movie theater, I would. Don't go and see this movie.