And there isn’t really too much to say about it. I was forewarned by plenty of people that told me the movie wasn’t worth the two hours of my life, but my 9 & 11 year old nephews had assured me that it was brilliant and I just had to see it!
Basic storyline, is that NASA has spotted some asteroids heading to Earth that will crash land in the ocean….no wait just of the coast……hang on a minute maybe all across the world…..oh and actually only by major population areas…. And as there slowing down just before impact quite possibly there alien spaceships and not asteroids at all!!! Aliens then proceed to invade Earth destroying every military force in there way, but “we can’t let Los Angeles fall!”
Rather than dealing with the whole invasion the story focuses on a single platoon run by an out of favour and retiring Staff Sergeant Nantz, said platoon get sent in to the warzone to visit the local Police station and rescue any civilians. The Police station in question is in the alien beach head that will have the shit bombed out of it in the next 3 hours. The movie continues with several predictable fight scenes and some pretty poor aliens that may or may not have air support, and may or may not be dead. Luckily a vet (the lovely Bridget Moynahan) is on hand to help dissect a semi dead alien to help figure out exactly how best to actually kill one! Nantz (the already very decorated hero) becomes the hero (who’d have thought) and leads his team (in ever diminishing numbers) not only to the police station, but back to base on a bus and back again into the war zone (that didn’t get bombed) to destroy the Alien Commandship that controls the drone ships that have currently thwarted our air born military strikes, YAY!
Likes number one, Bridget Moynahan. Likes number two, the “We Were Soldiers” way that Nantz and the team restock and head back into the war zone lead by my favourite line of the movie “we already had breakfast”. Likes number three, “Frag Out!” and that’s about all there is good about the movie.Rather than dealing with the whole invasion the story focuses on a single platoon run by an out of favour and retiring Staff Sergeant Nantz, said platoon get sent in to the warzone to visit the local Police station and rescue any civilians. The Police station in question is in the alien beach head that will have the shit bombed out of it in the next 3 hours. The movie continues with several predictable fight scenes and some pretty poor aliens that may or may not have air support, and may or may not be dead. Luckily a vet (the lovely Bridget Moynahan) is on hand to help dissect a semi dead alien to help figure out exactly how best to actually kill one! Nantz (the already very decorated hero) becomes the hero (who’d have thought) and leads his team (in ever diminishing numbers) not only to the police station, but back to base on a bus and back again into the war zone (that didn’t get bombed) to destroy the Alien Commandship that controls the drone ships that have currently thwarted our air born military strikes, YAY!
Dislikes number one, the film seemed to have very little point without really achieving anything all the way through. Dislike number two, let’s send a team in on foot until they get to their target and then we’ll send in a helicopter to collect the civilians….. if you’re going that way, why not just take them there on the helicopter in the first place!
So there’s not really that much to dislike about it, but then again there isn’t anything to like about it either, the whole thing is rather a non-event. If you are thinking about watching this, I would consider just dusting off your old copy of Independence Day and sitting back and enjoying a classic instead!
Random pub talking point….isn’t it lucky that Aliens only ever seem to invade when the human race have developed the technology/fire power to fight back! (here’s looking forward to Cowboys vs Aliens)
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