Steven Spielberg has come full circle.

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2011)

And, he has done so, beautifully!
The man who brought us E.T. and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND has shown us the flip side of what might happen to us if we _don't_ have a first contact where we prove just as amicably curious as the extra-terrestrial beings we someday hope will openly visit us.
The CGI being, in this case, looks like a cross between Sebulba the Dug and the Cloverfield Monster. But, he/she/it is undeniably _way_ scarier than both! Fortunately, we (as in, all six billion of us) are saved from a fate worse than SKYLINE by the unbiased compassion and understanding of children supposedly too young-to-know-better.
Elle Fanning (younger sister of Dakota "THE TAKEN" Fanning) is convincingly tear-jerking as Alice Dearden. The tomboy daughter of the man that Joe Lamb's father (Kyle "EARLY EDITION" Chandler) holds responsible for the industrial accident in which his wife (Joe's mother) was killed. And, as for Joel Courtney who plays young Joe, himself?
He just plain out-Elliot's Henry Thomas.
In short; if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn't nominate this for Best Picture proper, at next year's Oscars? I'm switching channels!