This is unique

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 2009)

Amen, this is NOT just another alien movie! Thank god. It absolutely blew me away! The one thing I think that made this movie such a success is the fact that it was filmed (for a good chunk of it) from a documentary point of view. That is what brought this film down to Earth, believable, suspenseful, intriguing, and most importantly current. The fact that the cast was unknown, to me at least, was a help. I certainly could not have had the same effect if any non-South African Hollywood superstar played the role.
The perfectly chosen location of Johannesburg, South Africa allowed the film to play homage to Earth's past conflicts, from your well known African civil wars and arms dealers, to forced relocation of a society and segregation of African-Americans (to name a few). Essentially, these creatures behaved as we would have under similar circumstances, except with this story our roles are reversed - we are the aggressors.