This movie sucks

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2010)

Call me simple but there was nothing to like about this movie. My expectations may have been raised due it's award nominations and positive reviews here but dang, I really didn't like it.
The filming/editing was fine. But the story sucked.
Wikus being first portrayed as a naive dork with an attractive wife and then changing rather quickly to a prickish idiot was the biggest thing that I couldn't get over. He did have his moment of redemption which for better or worse didn't happen on the time-table of a typical block-bluster but it just made the movie even less satisfying for what could have been a semi-enjoyable movie. I kept waiting for the moment where I could get behind what was happening but the ridiculousness of the plot points just tripped the movie up from becoming a good story. The acting was above average to below average which is fine by me. However the main characters of Wikus and Christopher had no clear consistency where you really wanted to see the rest of what was going to happen in the story. Christopher's character was so out of line with the rest of the aliens that it was distracting. I also don't see how if cat food was stronger than catnip that there could any lying around for Wikus to find. It's details like these that just break a movie. That and then the alien mech-suit. So if you were in Wikus' situation you wouldn't just clear out the MNU troops that were waiting around to kill you while you basically had an unlimited arsenal at your disposal? The movie did highlight immigration and the current situation in America but it didn't really resolve or even pursue anything deeper than what it presented on the surface.
The movie took an unrealistic view of an alien encounter and touched on immigration but anyone looking for anything deeper than discrimination (I mean the alien were an insect-like species that didn't speak anything close to any language) is, to put it lightly, stretching it.
The movie had potential and the effects/filming/editing certainly weren't sub-par and I can see where liberals would like to make a deeper connection but jeez it's sub-par B movie at best! The movie sucked. Sucked. Sucked. Sucked.