Felt like a big budget version of "signs".

Rating: 7/10 (24 July 2005)

I thought signs was an awful movie - but this I'd say was worth seeing but flagged towards the end. You did care a bit for the characters (well except the teenage boy whose reason for leaving the family group was 'I've got to see this'). The idea of keeping it close to the family, as signs had, was mildly successful and you got to see enough of the aliens to see how generally nasty they where, but it would have been good to see more interaction with others, get a feeling of what was going on outside, apart form seeing it on screens in the TV van.
Some scenes where laboured, the basement scene with the alien eye on a stalk (it's the same as the scene out of the abyss) could have been much shorter and some of the camera panning did look a bit fake as well (trying to be too clever I think) but there where some nice touches, such as the train on fire.
So not bad, but could have been turned up a few more notches to turn it into something more epic.