You'll either love it or detest it, but you won't stop thinking about it...

Rating: 8/10 (7 February 2008)

I was impressed by the fact that the main girl managed to scale a toppling building and run away from monsters in heels. And manage to look fantastic throughout. There is so much to rant about with this movie, it was the most frustrating, stressful, angering experience I've ever had in a cinema. There were so many "what the heck?"s and "oh my gods" and "just END"s coming out of my exasperated body, that I felt like I'd run a marathon by the end. It was cheesy,unbelievable, these people just wouldn't die, the camera just kept rolling (12 hour battery life, survived helicopter crashes, alien fights, nuclear bomb...). I was expecting something different - expecting a psychological torment, expected to be scarred, heart in my mouth, expected to care about the characters, didn't expect to see the monsters, and none of these things happened. For a short movie, it dragged and dragged, by the end I was practically jumping out of my seat shouting obscenities at the screen. The whole audience were stunned into silence, not because there was a twist at the end to shock us into silence, but because they couldn't believe they sat through the entire film. The reviews on this site are hilarious because I agree so whole-heartedly with all the one star reviews - it's funny. But the weird thing is, despite declaring it was the worst film I have ever seen, and being so riled by it, I haven't stopped thinking about it, I can't stop talking about it, I feel united in my utter dislike of it, that actually, I guess, it is a pretty unique and special film. In a kind of I hate it so therefore I love it but I really do hate it kind of way.
If you can avoid paying full price and have nothing better to do, go and see this film and be prepared to hate it and feel very angry, but be prepared to spend hours talking about it afterwards and then not be able to forget about it in a hurry...