Worthy of Ed Wood

Rating: 2/10 (18 January 2003)

Terrible. Truly awful. I don't know which was worse, the acting or the story. Kids in grade school have written better stories. For example, we have an alien invasion of the world, and somehow it focuses on a PA farmhouse. Why?
This movie is a mystery to me, because I know that Shaylaman can do better. I was impressed by SIXTH SENSE. But I think he's gone downhill since then.
Somehow, the invasion of the world is defeated. But not ours to know who or why--or how. But oh yeah, there's one alien left behind. And in keeping with the writing, the aliens are like those that a fifth-grader would draw.
And as if we needed any more schmaltz, there's some guff about religious faith.
Bottom line: this doesn't even come up to the standards of a 1950's melodrama. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL was much better.