another "us vs. them" alien flick

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2002)

Contains Spoiler!!! Movie goers expecting a bit of insight into the crop formation phenomenon will be sadly disappointed. Instead of enlightening the public about the increasingly hard to explain formations, the producers give us yet another "us vs. them" alien horror flick, a la Independence Day. Although the movie starts out with great promise, having us believe that we're actually going to find out some facts we didn't already know, the movie digresses into yet another horror flick. The final blow is the ending that has a stuntman in an alien suit breaking into a boarded up house and attacking the humans inside. This movie does not live up to the expections and all the hype. The only thing good that can be said about it is that at least the majority of crop glyphs appearing are attributed to extraterrestrials and not human hoaxers. But since such a mockery is made of the alien connection, one can only conclude that all crop circles must be the work of very skilled hoaxers. The word overheard most often from viewers exiting the theater was "stupid".