Move along folks! Nothing to see here!!

Rating: 1/10 (2 May 2004)

My 3 of 10 points go to Mel Gibson and his co-workers. That's it, other than that I have mostly criticism if you're interested:
*Spoilers*
1. The story was dragging along in an awfully slow pace.
2. There was not actually much happening in the movie.
3. There was a lot going on that didn't really give this movie any more substance
4. The constant talk about "There is no coincidence" started to really get irritating, and the sentences "Swing away" and "His lungs were closed" really drove this to the edge of utter irritation. Because if that was to be the movies main point, then it was a really boring one!
5. Whenever there was action to be expected you saw it from an angle from which you actually saw the least! In the cellar you saw 20 seconds of "flashlight on dirty ground" whilst the guys struggled to free the boy, -22345 points for that. Mostly in the fighting scene in the living room, you saw the bat, not the beaten one, -362344 points for that.
6. In general did this movie have about the worst shots I've ever seen! I think the film makers didn't wanna waste time on cutting up scenes into smaller 2 second bits like it usually would be done in many places, so when Mel Gibson talked to the woman who was playing his wife, you end up seeing him first for about 10 seconds and THEN FINALLY when you think you're never going to see her face, the camera switches angles and shows her face too. There were very many shots like that where not only the camera angles were extremely irritating but also what was filmed did not always seem to be the best choice. Whoever made the screenplay for this movie or decided what to shoot should really go back to film school! I could really and honestly have done that better myself!
7. Did you too notice that it seems as if we viewers were supposed to see as little of the aliens as possible? The first one is locked in a room and all you see is his fingers. The next bunch is again not in the same room as the camera and the rest of the people and when finally that single alien was in the middle of the room, the room had somehow become very dark - at least where the alien was standing - eventho it had actually been quite bright a minute before when the boy was on the couch next to where the alien now stood. It really seemed to me as if we were only to know that there were aliens, but we were not supposed to see them! CHEAP!
8. I found the story one of the most boring they could have made out of that topic. I would have rather seen this movie take some kind of direction a bit like "Contact" did. Maybe that Gibson was a scientist investigating crop circles who had started to kind of figure out some meaning and then maybe would have made one of his own that made sense to the aliens and that way gotten in contact with them... or anything else, but not a priest who doesn't wanna be a priest who has children which run around with aluminium foil hats all day and a brother who cant play baseball and a wife who died and said some delirious things when she passed away... TIRESOME AND DISAPPOINTING!
9. Of course this wasn't really illogical, but common... people in the Middle East being the ones to discover that the aliens don't like water? I mean... is that the first thing people in the Middle East would do? Spray water on aliens? As I said, it's not unlikely and I know that there too is water in the Middle East, but I would have found it a bit more likely for somebody else to come up with that, maybe people from South America or anything like that. Well well... this was just another of those more odd things that don't make you wanna watch this movie again.
Move along folks! Nothing to see here!!