Would I cynical in thinking in this case it's too disguise the fact that the aliens aren't all convincing if you look at them longer than a nanosecond ? Hmm CGI and blink and you'll miss it editing. One can understand director Jonathan Liebesman trying to do a sci-fi blockbuster in a realist style but we've seen too many films with " blink and you'll miss it " type editing and you'd think with the utter contempt that many movie fans hold Michael Bay in you'd think most directors would avoid this style rather than constantly embrace it, but no they still continue as if it's part of their job remit. The problem after the initial fighting however is that the scale and scope stops and started reminding me of any Michael Bay film you care to mention Goodbye epic scope and scale we had when the marines were airborne and hello to close up and elliptic editing done via shaky cam. As the action then takes place as a ground war in the ruins of LA I was reminded to a certain extent of BLACK HAWK DOWN.
It's still not really a great loss at this point because I was still very impressed by the epic scope and spectacle as the marines fly to Camp Pendleton via helicopter dodging airbursts caused by the aliens. This is a pity because I was expecting a bit more mystery and suspense allowing the story to breath before the aliens were revealed. In other words an advanced civilization should in theory be a non aggressive race not bent on conquest This is speculation of course because there's no evidence that there's life on any other planet and the novels of John Wyndham are quickly forgotten as the laser bolts fly and the aliens emerge from the sea. In simplistic terms a civilization alien or otherwise would have to evolve beyond petty tribalsitic squabbles and pool their resources in to conquering physics and mastering interstellar travel. One criticism of Wyndham's criminally underrated novel is that if an alien race was this advanced then there's no reason for them to be hostile down to evolutionary psychology. Meteors land in the ocean and very quickly alien incursions attack the coastline. One thing I didn't notice in the reviews was similarity to the John Wyndham novel The Kraken Wakes. Everyone described this film as BLACK HAWK DOWN meets ALIENS and who am I to contradict public opinion.
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