Truly Fantastic

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2002)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I was about ten years old when I saw this movie in the theater with my parents. I instantly fell in love with it. This was my favorite movie of all time, until just recently, when it was bumped down a notch by LOTR. I cannot sing the praise of this movie enough, and so won't bother except to say that this film is superb.
The only negative thing I have to say (this is probably what keeps it from being my favorite movie ever), and it involves SPOILERS,

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is that this movie should have ended about 15 minutes earlier than it did. In my opinion, this movie should have concluded with the destruction of the colony installation. The final battle, as it appears in the movie, with the heroine and the mother alien is just hokey. You can tell that it has been artificially set up from the very beginning of the movie, with those silly exoskeletons. It's so ridiculous, it pains me. Whenever I watch the movie, I turn it off, before this scene, so as not to ruin it, because everything else is great.
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Nonetheless, this is a truly superb movie, and is definitely one of my favorites. This is a must see.