Runtime:
89 minutes
Directed
by: Chris Gorak
Starring:
Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor
From:
Summit Entertainment
I
apologize for this being up late but I was tied up with other things.
Not that I really want to say too much about this film, which I've
known about since before it came out due to its unwise idea of having
invisible aliens. A unique idea, but probably one that wasn't done
before for good reason. I watched it last night on Showtime. I am
glad I did not have to pay to see it.
Let
me copy and paste the plot description from the IMDb: “The
American software designers Sean and Ben travel to Moscow to sell
their software to investors. However, their Swedish partner Skyler
pulls a fast one on Sean and Ben, and they are out of the business.
They go to a nightclub, where they meet American Natalie and
Australian Anne and they flirt with the girls and see Skyler in the
club. Out of the blue, the population is surprised by lights, which
they mistake for natural phenomena. But soon, they learn that the
lights are aliens invading Earth and using power supply to annihilate
mankind. Sean, Ben, Natalie, Anne and Skyler hide in the kitchen and
when they leave the place, they seek out survivors on the street. Are
they the last people on Earth?”
The
thing is, the worst part of the movie isn't the invisible alien
aspect. They feed off of energy so when they pass by something
electric or something that is used by it (such as lightbulbs or an
automobile) you see an orange-yellow glow from it, as it appears to
be surrounded by a spherical forcefield that makes it invisible; once
you do see what it looks like... I'll go with the online description
of “like The Langoliers”, but not as cool.
The
main problem with the movie is that all of the main characters are
asstagonists who you don't care about at all; then again they don't
seem to care too much for each other, as when their pal or pals die
off (sorry for the spoiler but you probably figured it was going to
happen, you know) they don't seem too affected by it. Then there's
the lame story which is just stupid in many ways and doesn't always
make sense. People die when the aliens touch them and they turn into
silver metallic dust, pretty much; that was goofy at best. The action
that you do see, it's not presented well so you don't care about it
at all. The aliens are not made out to be scary threats at all.
There's
no real reason to see this; it's not even fun to laugh at in a bad
movie sort of way. The Moscow scenery looked nice and all but it also did so in that horrible 5th Die Hard film. It's just dumb and pointless. I'll be back Monday
night.
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