Another major studio movie picked up by Netflix means that this sci-fi-actioner looks CGI-shiny and has a solid lead in Michael Pena. Setting itself up as a played-straight alien invasion movie, with seemingly no other motivation than to destroy Earth's population, the brutality of the initial invasion comes across well, and indeed the action/attack scenes are staged and handled very well. Pay close attention from the start, however; as the movie progresses there is a clever narrative shift that works very well. Whilst there is nothing here that has not been done before, it is done effectively here, the numerous genre influences are not particularly well-hidden but the movie looks good and plays efficiently.
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