(Jonathon
Liebesman/2011/USA)
An
initially decent premise devolves into run of the mill war movie
stuff with a gang of soldiers in skirmish after skirmish without any
real development of plot. It tries to be a visceral war experience in
the context of an alien invasion which is fine but without any
knowledge of why the invasion is happening and the only motivation
being to stay alive the only story is people running around trying to
do just that, stay alive. This works in a film like Independence Day
because the time is taken to develop both characters and the tension
of unexpected, unexplained alien presence before the attack. The tub
thumping, glorious American soldiers saving the day hokum just adds
to the annoyance of a vacuous script. It’s got lots of explosions
and action with not much else going on.
(1/5)
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