Some good scenes with a lot of filler

Rating: 3/10 (16 August 2009)

Wow I had great hopes for this movie. Sad to say they were not met. It bounced back and forth between trying to look like a documentary, conspiracy drama and sci fi action movie, in result did none of them well.
This movie is NOT original people ! There is a much better movie made over 20years ago called Alien Nation which was infinitely better. Supposedly they only spent 30 Mil to make this movie, but to me it looks like a garage movie that cost 3 mil.
The TV ads for this movie contain just about every action scene in the film. So if you go looking for action you will be greatly disappointed. I will say, the alien technology produced some awesome booms and bangs, and the mechwarior was cool. But there was not enough action scenes to make this film worth watching on the big screen.
The storyline started really bumpy because the documentary / interview section wasted valuable "get the viewer hooked" time. And the Aliens trying to flyback home was muted compared to the "lets exploit them for the weapons".
The movie sets itself up for a sequel, but does not make me hopefull. I think once word of mouth gets out it will quickly slow to a crawl at the box office.
In my opinion rent or buy a different movie and stay at home. You are better off watching Alien Nation, Independence Day or War of the worlds.