not as good as you might expect

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2011)

this is a good film, but i feel it fell short of its promises. the poster has Spielberg's name as bold as j.j. Abram's, and the main cast are kids, to me this was going to be an updated E.T. but it is no where near as magical as Spielberg's masterpiece. I don't know what went wrong, j.j. seems to be a good director / writer, i really liked alias & lost but feel he ruined the ending of both these series by rushing them to do movies. his previous movies have been pretty good, star trek and cloverfield. and i think this film may have been better had it either chosen its past - either build on the relationship between Joe, his heartache and the alien. or go with the route of the army hunting the alien, both feel like half fleshed out intertwining stories with no proper conclusion. watch this, as it is good, but don't expect E.T. 2.