When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat attacking Earth, a Marine staff sergeant and his team take it upon themselves to face the enemy and protect what remains of the planet.
This film feels so much like a videogame your hands keep reaching for controllers -- shoot the aliens, shoot the aliens, shoot the aliens.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
11 Mar 2011
rotten:
With his hawklike profile and square jaw, the hyperstalwart Eckhart looks like a comic-book hero and acts like one, too. He's so stalwart he creaks.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Mar 2011
rotten:
Excitement? Not so much.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
12 Mar 2011
rotten:
If the talk had been surgically removed, leaving only the sights and sounds of combat, this could have been a striking, semiabstract display of aggressive energy; as it is, any viewer over twelve will go for the laughs.