Directed by Neill Blomkamp
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)
It's nothing more than a B-movie dressed up with CGI and shot in a pseudo-documentary style. The excessive shaky-cam is annoying, unnecessary and inconsistently utilized. On the one hand we get fake news reports where the shaky-cam is supposed to be mimicking live TV. At other times the camera goes places where it would be unlikely if not impossible for a hand-held camera to go, such as in the alien shacks or private moments between a husband and wife...and yet these are also shot shaky-cam style. It frequently stoops to gross-out gags, undercutting any serious pretense. It's got a cute little alien with big eyes that is supposed to illicit sympathy. It borrows heavily from numerous films, including: ET, Close Encounters, The Fly, Laserblast, Transformers and Star Wars. The Big Action Climax goes on for far too long. Certainly one of the more overrated flicks of recent years.
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