Execrable Rubbish of the Highest Order/Ordure

Rating: 1/10 (31 March 2016)

I am wholly amazed - dumbfounded, in fact - that this film has the ratings which it does. R. Ebert (with whom I quite often agree) gave it 4 out of 4 (!!), and the user reviews here are 6.7! (!!!) Un.be.lieve.able.
While I am not willing to say that this is the worst film I ever have seen, it certainly is the worst I've seen in the past 10 or 12 years. I was holding out hope until the very end (the last 10 minutes or so), that the entire alien theme (in all its supremely flawed details) was some sort of dream sequence-y thing that the director would be able to somehow "pull off". The best that I could have expected from such a treatment (or from some other deus-ex-machina device) would have left me with a very poor-to-mediocre film experience, and even that would have taken absolute brilliance being exercised just shy of the ending credits.
But no. The aliens were what they were, and any interested reader can peruse the many reviews here which address in detail the oh-so-many flaws, sub-flaws, and sub-sub-flaws which, taken together, rendered the film all-but-unwatchable. I simply don't have the stomach to write on this at any length.
Finally, on top of this injury to the innocent movie-viewing public (Shame! Shame!), the film further insulted us with quite a bit of bad acting. (Though, in fairness, where the writing and direction is so perfectly atrocious, it may be somewhat presumptuous to assign any blame at all to the actors. Mea culpa.) Forewarned is forearmed, humans. Proceed at your peril, with this one.