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If you've watched Mark Kermode's YouTube review of this film (I did) then don't think he's wrong. It's a shocking, dull, boring, hotch potch of mock intelligent cinema that thinks it's on a higher level by ignoring that cinema is meant to be 'entertainment'.

The soundtrack is the best part of the film but that's probably because the editor realised when doing the cut that if you didn't keep the audience awake then the film was going to be an unmitigated disaster. It is now a mitigated disaster as the only mitigation is that the music track is worth listening to.

If Woody Allen had made it no doubt it would be genius. But he didn't.

I have to own up and say that I didn't watch the whole of this film at the cinema and would not dream of buying or renting a DVD. Unfortunately this film is an example of why cinema attendances are falling through the floor. Greedy studios with no imagination other than rebooting a film or franchise that doesn't need to be re-booted and then letting a hack scriptwriter get hold of it and murder it. Completely pointless opening sequence to pretend the film has something original to offer and then a slapstick pastiche rip off of the 1974 classic with zero charm, zero dialogue, zero soundtrack plenty of dull, lumbering monologues and in total a clumsy excuse for film-making. The train stopped because of the snow - this stopped due to a train-wreck. I lasted 43 minutes before leaving.

Great trailer but sadly an awful movie that leaves you feeling cheated by the cast, scriptwriters, effects and more importantly the producers and directors. There are some great effects in this movies and a couple of moments of great suspense but they are quickly forgotten in moments of cringeworthy script that leave you thinking that maybe the scriptwriters intended you to use your empty popcorn box to puke in towards the end of the movie! Believe the mostly honest ratings and reviews here as there are some pathetic moments here such as the stealth bomber being shot from the sky, hitting the rooftop where are 'heroes' are lying prone and then somersaulting over heroes to miss them and career into an alien, without even an explosion, wing dent or scorch mark on the rooftop. There were only three of us in the audience to watch this film in its first week and all of us just broke into derisory laughter at this scene, and also the 'touching' scene of an alien claw sensing the five week old heartbeat of the pregnant mother. The film itself steals from many SF films and I began to wonder if I was watching Scary Scifi Movie instead!