Subpar Sci-Fi

Rating: 5/10 (1 May 2010)

Aliens land in Johannesburg and are kept in encampment for two decades before they start running amok. The first half an hour or so of this movie plays like a comedy - like a spoof of sci-fi films. It then turns into a silly sci-fi film that is mildly entertaining but rambles on much too long. The aliens are portrayed as thug-like and they look quite ridiculous. Apparently the film has some serious underlying message about apartheid and discrimination, but the plot is too silly to take anything here seriously. Even within the ground rules established by the film, the central plot device involving spaceship fuel makes no sense.