On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
Maybe the moviemakers' mission was to boldly go where everyone in Hollywood has gone before: the bank.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
5 Mar 2008
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As unavoidably entertaining as it is hopelessly cornball.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
5 Mar 2008
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If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd probably think it was the coolest movie going.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
5 Mar 2008
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It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit.