Invasion

This movie joins a long and honorable list of sequels that should not have been made but were made anyway because of the success of the originals (think Pacific Rim Uprising or Independence Day 2 ). The sequel dropped the deeper philosophical elements of the original entirely and filled the remaining space with even more action scenes. And if you throw enough action scenes in a movie, some of them will end up being good. Unfortunately this yields a poorly paced, loud, and ultimately derivative movie, though Michael Bay would probably approve it.

The CGI effects are definitely on Marvel-level and the actors quite good, especially Alexander Petrov - who plays a very original part in this movie in a great manner! The alien-actor though seemed a bit misplaced, but mostly because screenwriter's choices - who were questionable in many places. I agree with other reviewers that action sometimes is rushed out without no apparent reason. And nice grandiose display of Russian military, on Independence-Day-level, very professionally done. As mentioned by others, I recommend watching the first Attraction movie before jumping in the second part, it will help feeling the movie a bit better; and the first part is also quite good.

134 minutes of dragged out plot and technical issue riddled writing that felt like 5 hours. You'd think they would've learned from the first films' mistakes. Nope. The first film was written by 5th graders. This one by 5 year olds. These writers need to go back to high school. Pretty sure the subbing was also done by 5 years olds. Acting was ok, and the score surprisingly good and fitting. The cinematography was excellent and the S/VFX were stellar - which is the main reason I'm giving this film my very generous 5/10

1) Take some ideas from Independence Day, Minority Report, The Day After Tomorrow, Titanic and some Youtube videos about Japan's Tsunami. 2) Mix them thoroughly 3) Ignore all the rules for writing a screenplay that works

Enjoy the result.

Both parts of Attraction are fitting seamless into todays high tech popcorn cinema. They are not better or bader than ,say ,most of the marvel movies. The story is rather simple,the cgi is fantastic and the pace is right for a enjoyable watch.