A great movie tainted by a single, poor plot choice

Rating: 4/10 (3 February 2017)

As stated in this title, this movie was entertaining for the most part, but the sum was tainted by one major, glaring flaw. The dramatic tension relied upon humanity's warmongering nature and stupidity overwhelming their senses enough to a completely self- destructive degree. Humanity considering attacking a superior force out of fear is plausible, but not after several months of peaceful coexistence - that is plenty of time for those lingering fears to vanish. Even the sensationalist media couldn't drive an "alien invader" narrative that long without any real evidence to suggest that to be the case. With that in mind, their attempts at dramatic tension not only fell flat, but it detracted from what is otherwise a great film. I really enjoyed everything else in the movie and would have given it a 9/10 happily, but that one suspension-of-disbelief destroying trait (which was probably only injected into the movie for the sake of poorly trying to keep the lowest common denominator interested) detracted from the movie enough to drop it down to a generous 4/10.