Heavily Sexed Up, Disguised, Rework Of Old Outer Limits TV Episode

Rating: 4/10 (8 March 2009)

First, Spoiler Alert! Secondly, I have never read the graphic novel that, from my understanding, is the basis for this movie. This story, as filmed, is a heavily disguised redo of the Original Outer Limits episode 'Architects Of Fear'. I don't doubt that there are other commentators that have already mentioned this. I just have not had time to read all of the comments to date.
Anyways, the film makers (And I would have to assume the graphic novel authors as well) have justified the redo by somewhat reversing the ending, whereby in the movie, the plot of the 'Architects of Fear', (One person in the film) succeeds in scaring the population of the Earth into Peace and Disarmament. This is contrary to the 'message' delivered at the end of the OL episode, if I remember at all correctly, that if there is to be true peace on Earth, that mankind much achieve it on his own. He can not be frightened into it by real or imagined threats from outside (Read alien, or superhuman).
The brief scene at the end of the movie, where the lead in for The Outer Limits was seen on a characters TV set confirmed to me the real origins of this film.
I admit that it took me a pretty long time to realize what I was seeing in the movie (basically a redo); but once I understood that, it pretty much turned me off of the film for the following reasons:
1: I agree with the ending of the television show; that if we ARE to survive, it will have to be by our own choosing and development as a race, and not the result of fear of an outside, more powerful, agency. A perfect example of this is the United State's response after 9/11. We were all in 'kumbaya' mode for all of about 6 months, Dems and Repubs working together, but it didn't take very long for us to forget about the threat, which is still out there, and go back to bickering amongst ourselves. True peace for all of the human race will have to be achieved from within. Personally, while understanding the difficulties we face, I am more optimistic that the human race WILL succeed in avoiding destroying itself.
2: As I said above, the ending of the movie 'somewhat reverses' the outcome of the original Outer Limits episode. I felt that the last minute of the movie DID leave open a door for mankind's reversion of attitude; which meant that the deaths of millions of people would have been for nothing. Yuck.
3: Too much extreme violence, just for the sake of shocking the audience. All right already, we get it; you can spill blood and break bones in slow mo.
4: The fact that it is a weak revision of something that has clearly already been done.
If you haven't seen the Outer Limits episode this story is based on, then it's not too bad a film. If you have seen the original, this is just a flashy, expensive, waste of time and money.