  By any standards it was quite a good film. One must remember this is a summer flick, A show to see to get a break from the heat and enjoy a half and hour of fun alien tech, mechs and a viral transformation or two. Not every film can live up to a certain standard kept in mind by most critics. Your talking about a completely fake sense of reality. Do you wake up angry because your dream that night may not have lived up to the same standards as the one previously before....no. For what it was, an alien film showing the struggles of a crashlanded race of catfood junkie insectoids, I felt it was a reasonably well done film with a budget of what?...00 million, not a whole lot of revenue in the world of film. Could it of spent more time of giving a bit more depth to the characters? Yes. Could it have shown more down, enriched scenes with a lesser need for special effects? Again Yes. In the ninety something minutes I spent watching it I bloody enjoyed every bit....plus who doesn't like the idea of splattering assholes with a phase cannon while piloting a walking robot death weapon?  By any standards it was quite a good film. One must remember this is a summer flick, A show to see to get a break from the heat and enjoy a half and hour of fun alien tech, mechs and a viral transformation or two. Not every film can live up to a certain standard kept in mind by most critics. Your talking about a completely fake sense of reality. Do you wake up angry because your dream that night may not have lived up to the same standards as the one previously before....no. For what it was, an alien film showing the struggles of a crashlanded race of catfood junkie insectoids, I felt it was a reasonably well done film with a budget of what?...00 million, not a whole lot of revenue in the world of film. Could it of spent more time of giving a bit more depth to the characters? Yes. Could it have shown more down, enriched scenes with a lesser need for special effects? Again Yes. In the ninety something minutes I spent watching it I bloody enjoyed every bit....plus who doesn't like the idea of splattering assholes with a phase cannon while piloting a walking robot death weapon?  Hmmm. No, this film was not a good film by any standards. It was not a good film by my standards or many of the other people who have commented on it on this site.  This is exactly the kind of laissez faire attitude that will continue giving us garbage instead of good films. If you can point out where the film should do more, then that film should do more. If the structure is klunky, the characters poorly developed, and the whole thing seems like a half-hearted reference, then film from script to projector should have been rethought at each stage.  You may have enjoyed the film, and that's awesome, but the film was bad to mediocre at best. If you examine Rotten Tomatoes you will actually see that many of the critics even in the positive column give the movie 0 out of 0, or 0 out of 0 stars and have some serious reservations. These are not glowing reviews. We as viewers should demand exceptional film making always. That doesn't mean that every film must suit everyone's tastes, but it should be the best that it can be. The fact that I can list, without thinking, at least five films that are like D0 but significantly better, makes me question the quality of D0.  And if I need a robot death weapon fix, I'll watch Aliens, which was a significantly better film.  Hmmm. No, this film was not a good film by any standards. It was not a good film by my standards or many of the other people who have commented on it on this site.  This is exactly the kind of laissez faire attitude that will continue giving us garbage instead of good films. If you can point out where the film should do more, then that film should do more. If the structure is klunky, the characters poorly developed, and the whole thing seems like a half-hearted reference, then film from script to projector should have been rethought at each stage.  You may have enjoyed the film, and that's awesome, but the film was bad to mediocre at best. If you examine Rotten Tomatoes you will actually see that many of the critics even in the positive column give the movie 0 out of 0, or 0 out of 0 stars and have some serious reservations. These are not glowing reviews. We as viewers should demand exceptional film making always. That doesn't mean that every film must suit everyone's tastes, but it should be the best that it can be. The fact that I can list, without thinking, at least five films that are like D0 but significantly better, makes me question the quality of D0.  And if I need a robot death weapon fix, I'll watch Aliens, which was a significantly better film.