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Reviewed By: Lord High Rikonian ( 2/22/2011 12:40:03 PM)
Rating: 3.00 glowing leg scars
Genre: Sci-Fi action/whiny teen drama
Starring: A bunch of people I've never heard of, and Hitman with hair
Plot: The movie is like what would happen if the Smallville writers wrote a screenplay and Michael bay produced it. Mainly because that's what happened.
The lead actor was kind of "meh, whatever", but the supporting characters and villains were entertaining (kinda like in Smallville). Olyphant was a pretty cool protector, and the lead evil alien was both a credible threat and a nice bit of comic relief ("Don't you want to play with it? It wants to play with you!")
The evil aliens were interesting visually. They look kind of like Eastern European MIBs, only with short fangs and nose gills. I like that they didn't look like generic space villains, but look close enough to existing archetypes to click with the viewer.
The action was very cool, with explosions, awesome leap moves, #6's wicked cool teleport-fu, and a variety of space weapons, car crashes and TK stuff to keep me entertained. Michael Bay's influence on the action scenes is apparent. And that is a good thing. Unfortunately, the action scenes take far far too long to arrive. We had to deal with far too much winy teen angst in the interim.
And it's cliched whiny teen angst. As soon as they showed the douchey football bully kid and the love interest chick, I knew right then that space teen would fall for her, the bully kid would get his friends and either try to grab the girl or beat up the space kid or both, and the space kid would easily beat them. I knew all that in under 30 seconds. But I had to wait about a half hour or so for it to play out.
Still, despite its faults, the movie is entertaining. If there is a sequel, I hope they focus more on alien on alien fighting and less on whiny teen stuff.
Viewing Advice: On the one hand, if you rent it, you can skip past the boring drama stuff. On the other hand, if you don't have a kickass home theater setup, you should see it in the theater for the awesome Baysplosions.
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