Good until the crap alien appears

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2002)

While the movie offered it's fair share of suspense and intrigue for most of the running time, the terrible ending completely ruins this film.
SPOILER WARNING
Are these the dumbest aliens ever to appear on the big screen?
In the first place, why does a super intelligent species need to make crop circles in order to navigate earth, when they are capable of the mind boggling navigation feat of interstellar space travel? Perhaps they made "dust circles" on asteroids en route.
Why, when you presumably know the planet is abundant with water, not wear a simple space suit to protect yourself?
Where are their weapons to defend themselves? They have their special gas squirter, but no guns? That alien at the end just stands there taking a beating, and does nothing to defend itself, despite displaying incredible athletic abilities earlier in the film.
The end of this movie is so rife with contrivances, that, for me at least, it ruined the relatively enjoyable sequences leading up to it.
3/10.