A Little Militarily Clumsy

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2014)

Where the logic of this movie collapses as an all out war between Aliens and the Earth involving the US and it's allies, Russia and it's allies and China and it's allies, is the complete absence of Russia and China in the movie beyond minor mentions, thus tending to create a lack of depth in this conflict. Next up of course was a complete and total lack of fire support in the movie, no tanks, no helicopter gunships, no fighters, no bombers and, no artillery. This is the second battle, Verdun being the first just barely mentioned, which they apparently won but yet a sea and airborne invasion is required, so they must have lost since. Obviously this was done to accommodate the plot to focus upon specific individuals within the story rather than having them disappear with in mechanised, support and air combat. Unfortunately this tends to distort and shrink the conflict, so no longer a final major battle for the earth but more a smaller battle involving direct infantry conflict in non-protective power assist suits (I assume the suits lack armour so that you can see the actors better). This of course enables the movie to be stretched out rather than having an artillery, missile, fighter bomber assault upon the appropriate target, one tiny tactical nuke and it's all over and it allows the bad guy aliens to run around viscously stabbing things with their tentacles. Basically Battle for Los Angeles meets ground hog day. Beyond that not to badly done with good special effects, reasonable acting and, reasonable writing.