Its a generation thing

Rating: 3/10 (15 June 2011)

It surely is the goonies meets the monster/alien. Every aspect of this movie is familiar, nothing original. Did they play it safe? Maybe every generation has or needs a movie like that. I am just the wrong generation and have to accept that. But it wont stop me to tear this movie apart. We witness a kind of genre-movie card game. You have the tragedy of losing a family member, the son of the cop, the depth of a girl that is mistreated by her father and of course the "creature" that hunts breathless from glimpse to glimpse. But are these genre clichés enough to manipulate your senses into believing that we are witnessing a timeless piece of entertainment? No, of course not. They also transport the plot into the 70s, into the neighborhood of classics like Jaws or Alien. And now kicks the "uncanny valley" in. The bait looks delicious but i am not willing to eat it, cause i know i will be pulled in and end unsatisfied on the floor of the boat. Maybe they try to hard, that we don't smell the big movie industry behind it. Sometimes less CGI is more and would create an intense homogeneous experience. But thats just my opinion.