Mixed feelings

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2003)

Although I enjoyed the movie in general, I was a bit disappointed too. But that could be attributed to my expectations maybe. I'd hoped, wished the director would have had an new, original view on crop circles. Alas, it was the aliens again. There were other cliché's: the 'psychic' kid that gets messages from 'beyond'; we've seen that in Poltergeist and other movies. And the storyline of aliens at first being almost invincible and than suddenly dying of something stupid, ordinary, onnozels (well, look it up); that has been used before: In War of the Worlds it were germs that finished the aliens and in Mars Attacks! country music. Another thing I noticed. Although at some point in the story it became quite clear the aliens were here (crop circles, giant spaceships hoovering in the sky), when the aliens got down to the surface they moved around almost undetected.