Unoriginal shoot em up for intellectuals!

Rating: 3/10 (21 October 2009)

The beginning is just a rerun of 'Alien Nation' - aliens with better weapons get forced to be subservient to stupid humans! The middle is 'The Fly' and the end is just about every other shoot em up you have ever seen. There are so many plot holes, it really is ridiculous. Two of the worst - eventually villainous multi-national company tries to capture the lead character turning into an alien by triangulating his mobile phone, only we won't pick him up straightaway, we'll leave it to the morning - yes, you guessed he's gone!!!! The second, every time the armed MNC's thick, boer, security heavies try to enter the town holding 1.8 million aliens and some very nasty Nigerian gangsters, they only take about two helicopters' worth of troops to dominate the area!!!! Yes, poor material that has got the intellectuals in thrall because it's set in South Africa, and has all that apartheid referential nonsense (actually it's about SA xenophobia at Zimbabweans, but let that pass) with most of the heavies, jarpie white SA's who get shot to pieces - cheer, cheer. What a lot better for the film if it had been set in Jerusalem, Baghdad or even Selma, Alabama, then it might have really ruffled some stereotypes and attitudes!!! By the way it took twenty years to process enough fuel to get the scout ship started, but it took a kid alien five minutes to wake up the mother ship (Thousand times bigger) and get it to move and haul up the damaged scout ship!!! Yes, there's that many holes!!!! Totally overpraised!!