Eclectic Script

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2004)

They're everywhere! Lurking in the cornfields, caught in the pantry, scaling the roof, stalking down alleyways, and up in the sky... You name it.

The script seems to borrow a little of this and that from at least a half dozen other works. These include "The Birds," "The Thing," "Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Night of the Living Dead."
So this plot (described as "drama/horror/scifi/thriller") connects crop circle phenomena with UFOs and aliens --though I don't recall such tangible connections being made before -- anything to create some tension.
It's H. G. Wells meeting Steven Spielberg (and those precocious kids are definitely Spielbergian) for a sincerely acted piece. Its impact will depend on the degree to which one's willing to buy into all those divergent reference links.
Mel Gibson certainly was, and delivered his role with the seriousness of enacting Hamlet (which he reportedly wants to play). He rather passed his audition.