Plays like a History Channel special if this really happened.

Rating: 8/10 (5 September 2009)

That's not a bad thing! You get the feel of watching a documentary, complete with news cam shakiness and television quality resolution and occasional surveillance cam shots mixed with standard Panaflex shots mixed quite well. You also get a few interviews of family and friends reflecting on the events that are about to unfold on the screen. This was just well done.
That's just the filming style, the story is engaging and you really sympathize with the characters. The only movie I can compare this to is Alien Nation, but the similarities are few. Excellent movie. Blows any summer action movie out of the water if you like substance over CGI. This film is pretty deep, if all you want to see in the theatre is stuff getting blowed up and nucalar kersplosions....stay home and rent a Uwe Boll film (feel free to look that up).
I doubt any intelligent movie goer will prefer Transformers over this.