What the...? Why did...?

Rating: 5/10 (8 August 2002)

The director tries to make a name for himself with a deep message about lack of faith and fancy visual images, but he leaves out major plot elements that make ZERO sense once you think about it. For one, the aliens had been in/around Mel's home for a few days. they bother his dogs and bend over his crops and jump on his roof, but for the most part (at first) they are not deadly. Then all of a sudden, out of the blue, Mel realizes that one night the aliens will come to kill him. He is right to barricade his family in his house, but how did he know an alien attack was coming THAT particualr night, when the aliens previously had been there for several peaceful nights? Joaquin lives in the guest house behind the main house. Why would his prized baseball bat and trophies be in his brother's house and not his own? When they notice the alien is hurt by water, why don't they all just take the 50 million glasses of water laying around and douse him? Junk junk junk.