Oozing signs of a tight budget

Rating: 6/10 (8 August 2002)

** minor spoiler **
I guess I can divide my disappointments into two groups:
1) Tackling a big story on a tight budget. For the aliens, the only thing that was remotely impressive was the last 20mins where they showed the alien, and even then, they tried to hide the alien for unknown reasons (perhaps poor SFX problems). All the other times, they never showed anything (except for a few hands). Big deal.
2) It seemed the director would gain momentum with a tense scene, but would then ruin it by throwing in some pointless comedy. I mean- what was the significance of the brother putting the soup can on top of the barricade in the basement??? I could go on here, there were about 5 separate areas where this happened.
Over all, I give it a weak 6/10.
-E