Rating of
2.5/4
sit through the first 2 hours the end is worth it
Nerva - wrote on 04/03/11
97% of this movie is pure suck... However, the 3% of good is so good it actually makes this watchable. For starters there is one epic scene which is shown in the trailer of the bodies, hundreds of them floating upwards. Personally I found this scene alone the best cgi I had seen in a long time. I was certainly more moved by that than by anything Avatar did. While I found nothing in this movie scary that scene alone was just unnerving and unsettling. The movie flutters along with characters you couldn't care less about, some rap music situation you don't care about and action that is more or less poor and boring. They made the aliens so rediculos looking that it didn't have the same 'signs' creepy effect and just looked like any random monster done godzille style. The creepyness of humanoid beings was missing here. Trying to do this without spoilers, just when I thought the movie was over and was regretting wasting the past 2 or so hours of my life it surprisingly took a different turn in a pretty origional way reminding me almost of an anime I had seen. While the end didn't last long it was enough to completely turn this movie around to me from same old alien dribble to actually something unique, different and dare I say good. I'm actually hoping for a sequel that will expand on the ending more.
