Nothing of Substance Here at All... poorly executed Film

Rating: Null/10 (21 August 2009)

I honestly don't understand all the love for this film. I love sci-fi but there's really nothing of substance here at all. The ridiculous overall notion aside, the story really wasn't told very well. The mix of point of view documentary, live TV coverage and regular film was poorly executed. It just doesn't work when you intermix those presentations throughout a film. The characters themselves were all unsympathetic, even the lead. His physical transformation is tragic (and gross) but every human is portrayed as a major a-hole. The violence was disgusting but I need more from my cinema than exploding humans and funky looking prawn aliens. The Iron Man meets Transformers exo-suit action at the end helps save the film as warped popcorn entertainment but that comes far too late to even care. BTW- There's 1.8 million aliens yet what amounts to two of them takes down the MNU complex? The story doesn't even hold up under its own weight.