diogotarantino2
The movie never stops and nevef wastes time with explanations.Good choreography.It´s always a pleasure to watch Iko Uwais fighting.Nice visual effects .The space ship and the aliens look decent.And the most important: The story does not take place in the USA,like in most scifi movies.Instead it show amazing ancient asian temples.People who love martial arts and sci-fi movies will enjoy this one.
iainrb
Absolutely ghastly movie.Far from the art house talents of Amenabar ,Cocteau, Godard, Ichikawa and Nechayev as you can get. A movie for the intellectual dullards of modern society with no redeeming features whatsoever .Like so many critics I have avoided watching it thus far in order to commemt on its awfulness from a position of lofty disdain for populist entertainment.
SnoopyStyle
Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) finds himself on a stalled subway as the alien invasion begins. LAPD cop Audrey (Bojana Novakovic) tries to keep the group on the train but they insist on leaving. Mark barely saves his hypnotized son Trent from being pulled up to the alien spaceship. The survivors travel along the underground.If the original is a B-movie, this is basically a C-movie. This follows a different group of survivors during that same assault. In the original, I found the last part to be problematic. This movie takes that last part and just keeps going. One also has to remember the red eyed alien from the original and his pregnant girlfriend. The brain thing really doesn't make logical sense. In the original, I took it as poetic license similar to aliens draining our blood in "War of the Worlds". I can't do that this time around since this builds a complete premise around it. At least, it's not a computer virus but it's not that far. For an alien futurism combat, there is way too much hand-to-hand fighting. This has its fun but I can't take it seriously.
NikkoFranco
This film should include a sub classification under : comedy. Alien flicks always intrigue me and it might be a low budget or high budget film, that doesn't bother me and my co-critique husband the least. What we found extremely hilarious were the fight scenes between the locals and the aliens close towards the climactic end. Never had we imagined that these blue-eyed Aliens have sought some martial arts lessons with Tong Po ( van Damme's master in the original 80s Kickboxer film) If you want to have a good laugh, do watch lightheartedly , it's all in the spirit of fun.