Between brilliant and dumb

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2014)

It is difficult for me to rate this film. First of all it is well acted and with decent special effects. The idea is interesting even if not terribly original and the film is well made. However, the movie has the problems commonly associated with "Groundhog Day" movies: it has to show you the repetition in time of certain events, even if you got the idea from the first two shots. All the time paradoxes are, again, an issue in cases like this. Then it has the problems commonly associated with invasion movies: aliens are immensely powerful, but childish in their intelligence, feral and inhuman and impossible to communicate with in a decent manner and they also have some common source of their power which can be destroyed so they would be defeated. Don't worry, I am not spoiling anything, you know everything I just wrote from the first quarter of the film, but you still have to watch the rest of the film to actually see it.
So, in conclusion, a well made film that brings almost nothing new to the table. Based on the level of the details that you like, you can make the story into a small episode in a series, a movie or an entire season of something, however the basic premise and what you effectively learn from it remains the same. It left me with a strange feeling because I both enjoyed it pretty much, but I also got that nasty cliché feeling all the time while seeing it.
I recommend it, but don't expect too much.