Good Hollywood Alien Movie

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2003)

The scenery. Set in an eerie cornfield. Perfect. Scared the hell out of me (I live in a place similar to that). (It reminded me of Frailty). It's a typical Hollywood thriller, but one of the best. Hollywood usually makes good thrillers action packed blockbusters like Independence Day and Armageddon, but to see them make a quiet, eerie, slow moving blockbuster thriller suprised me. The director is real good. I loved it when you could only see the sillohuete of the alien when he's standing on top of the barn. People complain that they look kind of goofy, but when I first saw it walking by the kid's birthday party on that news channel, I was almost screaming. And the humor was a good mix. Mel Brook's brother (I cant spell his name) was a funny character in that and a good supporting actor. I loved the army sign up guy. It's a great Hollywood family movie. B+, 8/10