The story is spoiled by using the wrong type of characters and a badly written script.

Rating: 6/10 (1 December 2011)

I watched this movie with high expectations because of the good reviews here on IMDb. I expected this to be a brilliant movie which would blow my mind, sadly it did not.
The beginning of the movie starts out with a TV-crew giving a interview to the people of MNU, an organization which is in charge of communications with the aliens who have stranded on earth, the camera- crew follows the main person around and gives a unique insight to the event. This twist with the interview is something I liked very much, it gives the viewer good information about the event which has taken place. In short terms, it's very good. It also keeps things interesting, until they decide to drop it and go back to the original camera setup.
What disappointed me the most was not the story itself. The story is actually pretty good, and I believe with a few changes I would have enjoyed it. No, what turned me off was the horrible script and the characters which doesn't fit in a movie setting like this. Not one time did I feel any sympathy for any of the characters. They simply does not belong in this kind of setting. With different actors and a new script this movie would be close to a masterpiece.
The visual effects are good. The explosions look real enough and the aliens movements are very believable. I really liked it when the movie showed me the story from the aliens point of view. But sadly, this only happened a few, short times. Wespend most of the time watching the main character. The aliens are well created and and more time from their point of view would have given a boost to this story.
In short terms, I liked some parts of the movie. Especially the beginning where the camera-crew took a very nice twist. But when they got back to original camera setup they failed. Continuing with the same camera setup would have given the story a nice twist all through it. The visual effects are nicely made, and the designers deserve some credits for it, sure I've seen better, but they are not bad at all. The story itself is actually quite good. But using the wrong types of characters and the badly written script destroyed the whole movie experience for me.
All in all I'll give it a 6/10.