Religious vehicle and full of plot holes

Rating: 2/10 (11 August 2002)

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Very disappointing (2/10).
This movie is a religious vehicle in a very heavy handed way. At the beginning of the movie, the lead character is a reverend that loses his faith because of his wife's accidental death. At the end, due to a ridiculous set of coincidences (i.e. a "miracle") he regains his faith. The whole alien/sci-fi thing is completely incidental - it could have been a non-sci-fi movie and it would have achieved the same goal. It would have been nice to know it's a religiously inspired movie ahead of time - I would not have watched it.
And let's talk for a second about the plot holes. The aliens have to fight without technology because "we would nuke them and make the planet uninhabitable". They use poison to kill their victims. Why in the hell can't they have at least light weapons? And if they are spread across the planet, why would we nuke them and kill ourselves in the process?
At some point, the aliens carve large star and moon shaped holes in a door. But before that instance, they couldn't go through any of the barred doors in their way. The protagonists fend them off nothing more than planks of wood and some nails. If they can carve those shapes out, they can surely break down a door. Give me a break.
The kid forgets his asthma inhaler before going into the cellar. You'd think he'd have it on his person.
They keep dropping their flashlights for no reason.
They walk around with aliens about but they take no weapons (such as an axe they previously used to bar a door with).
And the list goes on...
Oh, and there's a slow three minute flashback interrupting a 20 second action sequence near the end. You'd think a professional director wouldn't make such an amateurish mistake in dramatic pacing.
In all, it's the worst movie I've seen in years.