Underrated as Hell!
I saw this tonight, expecting to laugh my way through its badness. I was shocked. This is a fine alien invasion movie, definitely not worthy of the hatred and negative reviews.
shareI totally agree with you, I was expecting it to be real bad with the reviews and the imdb rating but was pleasantly surprised.
Why there are a few threads stating how bad this movie is beyond me, I have seen way worse movies.
This movie deserves at least a 6 so lets look at it objectively.
1, Acting, The actors/actresses can all act as they have proven in other tv programs and flicks, granted that a lot of the acting scenes have been produced terribly, so that's not the actors/actresses fault (I have seen way worse get better reviews). I would rate this 4.5/10
2, Writing, Nice storyline, a bit different from what we are used too, so its nice to see something 'out of the box'. The script also isn't too bad but it seems as though the actors have been told to stick with it 100%, where as other movies, the actors have been told to go with the flow and say something if u feel it will add realism which has proven to be very effective. 7/10
3, Directing, As much as the story was pretty well told and some left for the imagination, plus the CGI scenes was pretty good. The only thing that let the directing down was some of the acting scenes as stated above and with the acting being one of the biggest parts aside from cgi, let this movie down a lot. 4/10
4, Cinematix, This was very good and made the film enjoyable to watch, especially if you're a scifi fan, not to mention some of the scenes was astounding for the budget, 8.5/10
5, Over all feel, Although some of the acting could have been produced better and reshot, the rest of the film was pretty good and the storyline is something different to the usual scifi flicks we watch. I await the second part to this trilogy as much as I do ID2&3. 8/10
In total imho this movie is at least 6.4/10
If the production was slightly better, then this movie should be at least a 7 based on A class movies. If I was to rate this move for B class then I would definitely give this a 9/10.
There are very few movies I can watch past the first viewing but this alongside other decent scifi flicks, I have watched over 4 times.
I only registered on imdb to post this :p as this movie does not deserve the negativity it is receiving.