When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.
There's a kind of magic that happens when a movie inspires complete strangers to ridicule it to each other on the way out of the theatre.
– Jason Anderson,
Toronto Star,
12 Nov 2010
rotten:
Imagine it's 1953 and you're watching a movie called 'Brain Suckers from Planet X', and you might even have a good time.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
15 Nov 2010
rotten:
These aren't moviemakers who live even in other movies, let alone the world. They live in hard drives.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
15 Nov 2010
rotten:
How this managed not to go direct-to-DVD (and actually get a wide distribution rather than just a handful-of-theaters dump) is one of 2010's great cinematic mysteries.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
16 Nov 2010
rotten:
Visual-effects wizards Greg and Colin Strause directed, showing more affinity for the city's steel and glass than for any of the characters.