Expected so much, got so little

Rating: 6/10 (8 August 2011)

I first saw the teaser trailer with the train crash about 2 years ago: a project of J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg. I was really excited back then. Now, almost 2 years later, it was there! I grabbed the very first possibility to go and watch it. But when I left the theater I didn't know what to think. I tried to convince myself that it was good and my expectations were just too high. I had a day to think about it and this movie just wasn't good enough.
First the plot. It's the same story like cloverfield, with some ET like scenes in it and other sci-fi alien movies we all seen in the past few decades. Of course it had something new to it, but it wasn't good enough.
Second, when I go and see a movie I want to get entertained, I want to get dragged into the story or a character. But with this movie I was aware that I was in the theater all the time, I just couldn't get into it.
And finally, there were some critical errors in the movie. Now normally I don't mind those and see past through them, but here they were just too obvious. And maybe you can see past through them, I really hope so, but for me it was another point why I didn't like it.
So was there nothing good in the movie at all? Well, of course there were things that were good and entertaining. The plot had some nice things in it. But overall it all just wasn't what I expected.