A pretentious Outer Limits episode

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2002)

It had good acting, some genuinely scary moments, and some funny moments, but overall it just ends up being a well-polished turd. It also features the dumbest aliens to ever master interstellar travel depicted on screen. "Hmm, we are allergic to water, so lets invade a planet covered by the substance, in dew-covered fields, and kidnap people who are made primarily of the stuff! Yeah, and lets not wear any protective gear at all! Brilliant plan! Oh no, they turned on the sprinklers! Retreat, retreat!" But since that apparently wasn't the real focus of the story (they only devoted about 90% of the movie building up that aspect, after all) The real story is about how a reverend deals with the invasion and gets his superficial faith back because of all the stupid coincidences helped him save his family, or something. It's not that the aliens border on being retarded, it must have been a higher power, yeah, that's the ticket.