***SPOILERS*** The reviews of this movie are disappointing to me. It wasn't the greatest, but it did very well with the "think outside the box" mentality that today's cinema direly lacks.
For instance, nearly every alien movie to date is based on a humanoid figure with "advancements" on human technology. They have a head, limbs, vital organs, shoot lasers with guns and have super-powered bombs. These aliens do not. Furthermore, whether or not they have physical bodies is even in question- and their ability to bend light is something mankind likely won't possess anytime soon.
Nearly every thriller these days dealing with an invasion of some kind portrays nightfall as the "dangerous" time, and daytime as the "relatively safe mode". This movie switches that up- and what is the material they are able to hide behind? Glass. A material that we as humans can see through perfectly well, is the visual roadblock for these invaders. Even the way humanity is being exterminated is unique to this movie. Seems the people giving this a bad review aren't happy unless the bad guy is straight out of Halo with some kind of automatic space rifle.
Sure there's a few plot holes and unbelievable coincidences, but these days the amount of generic alien/zombie/plague/apocalypse movies coming out with slightly varied versions of the same dilemma aren't exactly boasting bulletproof material either. This movie takes an original idea and combines it with an original environment (whoa a movie not set in a country that speaks English?) and gets spit on because it's not the same recycled garbage we've seen for years?? Please.
I'm not saying it's a great movie, but it's certainly better than the plethora of alien invasion movies being farmed out by Hollywood. If you just see "invisible aliens" instead of "light bending energy- based non-humanoids", then you're the type of person directly contributing to the mind-numbing amount of refuse our entertainment seems to propagate itself with.
For instance, nearly every alien movie to date is based on a humanoid figure with "advancements" on human technology. They have a head, limbs, vital organs, shoot lasers with guns and have super-powered bombs. These aliens do not. Furthermore, whether or not they have physical bodies is even in question- and their ability to bend light is something mankind likely won't possess anytime soon.
Nearly every thriller these days dealing with an invasion of some kind portrays nightfall as the "dangerous" time, and daytime as the "relatively safe mode". This movie switches that up- and what is the material they are able to hide behind? Glass. A material that we as humans can see through perfectly well, is the visual roadblock for these invaders. Even the way humanity is being exterminated is unique to this movie. Seems the people giving this a bad review aren't happy unless the bad guy is straight out of Halo with some kind of automatic space rifle.
Sure there's a few plot holes and unbelievable coincidences, but these days the amount of generic alien/zombie/plague/apocalypse movies coming out with slightly varied versions of the same dilemma aren't exactly boasting bulletproof material either. This movie takes an original idea and combines it with an original environment (whoa a movie not set in a country that speaks English?) and gets spit on because it's not the same recycled garbage we've seen for years?? Please.
I'm not saying it's a great movie, but it's certainly better than the plethora of alien invasion movies being farmed out by Hollywood. If you just see "invisible aliens" instead of "light bending energy- based non-humanoids", then you're the type of person directly contributing to the mind-numbing amount of refuse our entertainment seems to propagate itself with.