Bad Horror Movie, Good Social Commentary.

Rating: 4/10 (28 May 2009)

For once, I got it right. By mid-movie, I was hoping the monster would win, and it did.
Maybe I'm getting old, but these kids were the most irritating, stupid, and moronic I've seen in a long time. If that's the state of youth today, them I'm glad I have (hopefully) only another 25-30 years on this planet. The head of the Statue of Liberty lands in the middle of the street, and all everyone can do is scream, whimper, and takes picture of it with their cell phones; People can see the Brooklyn Bridge fall into the river, and all they can do is scream and yell hysterically- not one can help anyone else...
Young people can see their world collapse in front of them in a post-9/11 environment, and their main comment is "Dude? What happened?" The main male character finally grows a pair and kills one of the spider thingies, and then drops the axe??? Okay, don't actually *keep* a weapon against them, throw it away and leave yourself totally defenseless.
And so on, until I cheered every time one of the main actors was killed off...
My only recommendations is that men under the age of 25 see their doctor for shots of testosterone.
As to the movie: - What are the odds that 4 people are going to run into the same monster - which is engaged in a running battle with the military - on an island 23 square miles in size?

Why were the spider thingies in the subway tunnel? It simply couldn't have been a case of they were in *every* tunnel, there's far too many miles of them. So, what? Were they simply chasing the 4 characters? In the same vein, how did one of them get in the girl's building, and how was it that it wasn't seen on the way up?

Do people really think that the military is so stupid as to *track* the direction of a threat when carrying refugees in helicopters?

The director should have allowed everyone to put a little salt on themselves: setting themselves up as dinner for the creature, the least they could have done was make themselves taste a little better: at least then the movie would have had *some* taste...
..Joe