Like eating... a burger king breakfast when you normally eat real food. I imagine after a while you'd get used to it and dislike anything real. However for anyone else it's not really digestible. I can't quite put my finger on it, everything is so formula. I was watching the cinematography and even that is like... bog standard. Everything you'd expect. You know an idea has reached a certain level of saturation when even this film makes reference to it, for example a crew of survivors are directed by some general or government rep or whatever to the centre of town for helicopter pickup and one of the survivors thinks that is fishy because it's full of aliens. Are they being directed to ground zero of a mass nuclear extermination (and... why)? This leads to a rift in the group and one woman who seems to represent some innocent conservative type says "but they government wouldn't lie to it's people!". Yes the idea just got dumb.

I can't say much good about this film really, I mean, yeah, kudos to the SPFX department I suppose and to everyone in the whole crew for producing... exactly what the money men told you to make. You did well on that. I'm sure 14-yr-olds everywhere (and 30-year-old socially inept guys with figurine doll collections) loved it. Well I can say one thing I suppose. It had a teenage love interest thing happening, a unpopular guy who represents that the target audience think they are, except this guy wouldn't go and watch this movie in his spare time, get a clue; and a cute girl who obviously was friends with him when they were kids but she blossomed and started dating all the nasty jocks. Anyway she drops her nasty jock (who gets ripped up by an alien of course) boyfriend and... well you know how this story goes if you've ever seen say, Transformers (ugh that took me 2 very forced sessions to finish). Well, halfway through the film she gets wiped out. It almost made it look like the film held no prisoners for the sake of fairytales. Of course, it's target audience will willingly let the love interest die for some gore all the while to a Pantera (or some modern equivalent) soundtrack I suppose. That's why they are all dateless.