wasted effort

Rating: 5/10 (18 September 2012)

(SPOILERS) Boring but sometimes unintentionally funny splicing together of pieces of better films (such as It Came From Outer Space, I Married a Monster From Outer Space, Alien, ET). The "creature" acts irrationally, eating both good guys and bad guys, but not little kids. The director gives mixed signals as to whether we are to feel sorry for the creature or not. US military people in the movie are depicted as murderers. The CGI is sometimes so over the top as to be unbelievable. There are multiple scenes of the raining of debris all over the place with miraculously no one being injured. For a much better example of the use of CGI in a recent SF film, see District 9.