Disappointing at best ...

Rating: 4/10 (11 June 2011)

Although the acting was good in general and the characters entertaining, this movie comes with no surprises: at first, the atmosphere of an unknown threat to a little town of Ohio tend to grab you. But by the time the plot is understood (very early in the movie), there is a feel of a bad remake of ET mixed with the Goonies mixed with any other movie with a bad alien in a rampage. It is also full of scenes defeating any logic and laws of physics and some of the outcomes make no sense. The (rotted) cherry on top: add to the mix a few classic themes such as "the two family do not talk to each other but let's get together for our children" or "the child saves us all and empathize with the Alien" (with a scene to cry for). Nauseating. If there was not so many cliché, it could have been a good movie.