Half the movie was just buildings blowing up

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2013)

They burned too quickly through the first half of the movie which actually had potential to be interesting. The scenes were scattered and cut certain interesting aspects about his life too short. It would have been interesting to see what happened when he landed on Earth and see more of the story about his life growing up. There were some nice scenes in the beginning where the style of filming really captured the atmosphere of the various places he was in- the clothes on the clothesline, raindrops in a bucket, hitchhiking on a mountain road. But those nice scenes that were seen in the trailer kind of gave me a false impression and ended up being very little of the actual movie. I had seen trailers and interviews about how they were trying to make this movie more "real" and that it was meant to have a very human aspect which should have been more about his life experience on Earth and his loneliness and the way he felt about being so different and not knowing where he came from, but you could tell that what the makers of this film really wanted was just to hurry up and get to the action. I expected a certain amount of impressive action scenes, but expected it to then go back to an interesting storyline. Instead, they basically dragged out the destruction of buildings through the rest of the movie with a few scenes of dialogue here and there. I think it had potential to be more of an interesting science fiction story with a human touch but I guess the people who love to see buildings blow up will not be disappointed.