Pretentious sentiments; dumb aliens

Rating: 4/10 (7 February 2003)

This film is an annoying combination of film making skill and moments that make you want to say "He's gotta be kidding". But he isn't kidding; a ponderous seriousness hangs over this film. Everything is so heavy with meaning that in the end nothing has meaning.
And those claw fingered aliens...don't they ever learn? Three times in the film they stick their fingers under doorways. That just does not work when you are trying to open a door. If you have flown at FTL speeds through interstellar space, you'd think you would know how to work a door.