kev0131 This movie is atrocious. I'm trying to think of a worst alien movie but I cant. If the makers of this made it any worse it would be humorous like Sharknado which is much better. What were Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby smoking to sign up for this? I downloaded this thinking it was the new movie Darkest hour with Gary Oldman but soon realised I made a huge mistake. The first 10 minutes looked promising but omg is all i can say. I had to fast forward most of it even though its less than 90 mins long because it was unbelievably boring and a load of nonsense. None of the science about electromagnetism or whatever in it made sense. The Russian fighters wearing chains and wires for whatever reason was ridiculous. I cared nothing for the characters, i wished they would all be killed off at the same time as soon as the aliens landed. Its not even worth going through whats wrong with this low budget garbage.

silvawebdev It's definitely not an a list type movie, but the special effects are much better - cgi is getting cheap and better quickly - but they did a great job with the aliens and their actions. A few things were off, but generally great cgi, good acting of the stars although the story had some cliché type situations regarding internet start ups and evil businessmen and young teens as well a Russians. It was nice they picked Sweedes as the villain thought ;) Anyway, if you like science fiction it's worth a watch. The story could have easily been done as a 2 hour epic film with better back stories for the aliens, the stars and more of a world outlook rather then cloverfield type micro focus, but overall a good watch.

brandileewilliams Don't get me wrong, the story line was very interesting and something you don't see with every apocalyptic movie. I went into this movie with high expectations set from watching the trailer, only to be somewhat disappointed halfway through.The monsters/aliens whatever you want to call them are extremely intimidating at first, but only in the beginning can you actually feel any sort of terror from these things. Once they are revealed behind their invisible shield, it's almost laughable to see such a bad cgi with the faces. You would think that a movie with such great quality when portraying death scenes would spend a little more time on the aliens themselves.The actors felt too fake, and I found myself scoffing at how many of the main 'group' we see die only because it was so expected.The movie was okay, but I'm not going to bring it down completely because of a few minor things that could of helped it in the long run.I would still watch this movie again, however, I would warn people that the 'hype' from the trailer is not at all like the movie.

juneebuggy Despite all the terrible reviews this wasn't a terrible movie. I actually quite liked it. Sure there are moments where you just have to go with it, (how did that girl end up in the bus when everyone else is in the river?) and the acting (expect for Hirshe) is not great but I've definitely seen worse.The premise of invisible energy absorbing aliens is pretty cool and the special effects are excellent -even if they're reminiscent of the beginning of War Of The Worlds, where Tom Cruise is running away (and through) everyone getting incinerated into ash. I also loved the fact that this took place in Moscow, super refreshing location, in fact that was the hook that got me to watch, I doubt I would have bothered if this had been another America saves the day in America movie. 5/24/14