Much ado about what?!

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2002)

I might be insensitive or plainly dense, but I don't see what's so great about this movie. Just don't... Yes it's a rip-off of almost every hare-brained alien flick, and even ufologists are probably ashamed of it - the vulgarization of their concepts reaches a surprising pitch in this 2-hour drag. I absolutely agree that the whole 'alien' part of the story is so unbelievably stupid that I started to look for satire, parody about 15 minutes into the film. I then I looked again, and again, and again... And I did not find it. The fact that the most ridiculous alien invasion ideas prove true during the course of the film somehow does not convey the idea that the director makes fun of them. For a parody there's too much 'boo' element and clawed hands grasping out of the dark. Is it about searching for faith? Well, then presentation certainly leaves much to be desired. I don't see how finding that asthma can protect from air-born poison lets one come to terms with Deity. Oh yeah, it might, but so can, for instance, observing dung beetles - everything is a part of creation. And how you are supposed to think about all that after being primitively but effectively shocked out of your pants by half an hour of invisible horrors attack?