More silliness from another new director.

Rating: 3/10 (19 August 2009)

I can't say I don't get what the director is going for here, a documentary style, shaky camera movements, etc, and he has us come in not at the arrival of the aliens like most films, but it has been established that they are an issue. The problem is not that the action itself or the effects are unreal but it's the plot and just basic understanding of reality that has been thrown out the window.
First of all, if real aliens suddenly arrived on Earth the UN would take control of the situation (not a weapons manufacturer) in a completely controlled manner, every alien would be in quarantine and never be able to contact normal citizens. The whole idea of a shanty town for them where they interact with gangs and families is just plain stupid.
Basic questions are not answered: Who is running the alien ship to keep it afloat? How can they communicate with the aliens? Why are they treating them as citizens who have to sign papers? Why would an alien have any conception of our ways of money or what's valuable? Why would an alien species want to sleep with a human woman, would you want to sleep with them? Why did they allow the aliens to acquire weapons? Why are they going door to door against creatures who are three times their strength with an approach like they are evicting old grandmas? Would you go door to door in a bad neighborhood full of gangs with drugs and weapons with three inexperienced guys and one guy with a gun??
The aliens are: A) Stupid animals who are addicted to cat food. B) Super intelligent enough to create the ship and travel to Earth. C) Dumb creatures who eat rubber tires and scrounge for garbage. D) Genius chemists and weapons makers who learn to read and speak English without any lessons.(oh wait, they don't speak English, and the humans don't speak alien, wow, it's the first time in history where two cultures speak to each other in their own languages with no interpreter and understand each other)
To believe in this movie is to believe that every aspect of human military and the ability to control large groups of people (which we have doing for 7000 years) has been lost and we have no idea what were doing anymore.
I'm sure this film will be praised and hailed as a masterpiece by 17 year olds who for some reason today only like movies filmed in this quick edit, crazy CGI, wacky camera, no real plot style that has taken over good sci-fi. Here today gone tomorrow, about as relevant as Transformers.