Painful would be a complement

Rating: 3/10 (27 February 2000)

This movie could have been very good. Unfortunately, it was some of the worst trash I have ever seen on the big screen. The photography/effects were interesting at times, but most of the time it seemed to be there just to say "we're so cool, we can shake our camera and do flash edits!" The worst part of the movie was the writing. Every single piece of "dialog" was an idiotic one-liner. The characters were one-dimensional, and some of them were even less. The Muslim kids served no purpose except to act as "red shirts".
This is a movie that had it been well written and shot with a little more restraint, could have been up there as one of the best sci-fi movies. It was really a unique concept, but alas Hollywood strikes again.