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Rating: 2/10 (29 October 2009)

All right, I didn't expect much. Nicholas Cage, lots of special effects, big ballyhoo... Intriguing premise, though. Actually, to be fair it started off okay (even if the Spooky Little Girl character has long become a bit of a cliché), not that bad at all. Sadly, about a quarter of the way through the movie blew a tyre and it was a rough, uncomfortable ride on down to the really, really bad ending. Think of a snowball rolling down a hill, only it's picking up garbage, not snow. Normally I'd just chalk a bad movie up to experience, but this one made me mad. The dialogue was banal, the special effects were anything but, and to put it nicely the storyline didn't bear close scrutiny. In fact it was mildly infuriating nonsense. By the time those angels-sorry-aliens Close-Encountered the kids and took them away to the Marvellous CGI Planet, I'd wanted my money back for well over an hour (BTW, just because something is two hours long, it doesn't make it an 'epic'. Just long). Nonsense. Bland, silly nonsense.