Action movie, video game, yes. Social commentary, not really.

Rating: 6/10 (5 September 2009)

This movie is technically impressive. It has some solid performances. It is not subtle, and it is wildly implausible. I assumed I wasn't getting the whole story from the trailers on how an advanced race capable of intergalactic travel could become refugee camp squatters to a less advanced race. Nope. That's pretty much it. I had a number of "Why?"s floating in my brain afterward, but they were beaten down by the sheer brutality of the film. This is basically a buddy cop film, with as thin a veneer of plot as most of them have. What sets it apart, again, is the technical execution. It looks amazingly real. If only the story and script lived up to it.