Great but not the "BEST"

Rating: 9/10 (14 August 2009)

I kept hearing from people who caught the 'special' screening "Oh it's the best movie of the year! You gotta see it!"...I must admit, it was a good movie, but not the BEST. The plot was extremely original which I LOVED, the special effects are 'top notch' as promised in advertisements and reviews, but what it lacks in is execution, now don't give me s**t about my opinion because it's just that, MY opinion.
I was expecting some thing shocking, something that would blow my mind but the only thing that blew me away was really the theaters AC...oh and the plot. For me it was just another Alien movie...but it's not your typical alien movie. We're all used to watching ones with butt-loads upon butt-loads of action and violence and some pretty freakin' scary aliens but this wasn't anything like that...NOT that I'm complaining mind you, I just really disliked that it was made out to be this major action movie, and we're left with AT MOST 15 mins of serious alien vs human death-matches.
On the other hand, I was very impressed with the visual effects, story and acting. I gotta hand it to the main character, for being an unknown actor and not really starring in very many movies, he did a phenomenal job in this roll.
So I guess in the end all I can really say is if you decide to spend the $9.50 (or however much it is you spend on a ticket), go in prepared for lots of dialog, special effects. Luckily our theater here is still cheap so we only had to shell out $4.50 matinée price...so I guess the movie lived up to it's ticket price. Worth matinée if you can catch it, but probably not the full ticket price.
7.5 out of 10 for me.