Good concept, poorly executed.

Admirable film.

A Masterpiece!

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

As a war movie, this could be rated much higher, but it pretends to be sci-fi/horror movie. It is not. It is a war movie with many human monsters, a few special effect monsters thrown in to pretend it is sci-fi/horror and unlikable characters (at least for me). If you want a movie about a group of young men going to war and how they react to the horrors of it, I am sure you can find other, much better movies that don't pretend to be something other than they are.

This is a sequel to a movie called Monsters. This is not a god movie. But it is not has bad has monsters. This does have a very good story line. It has an awful acting. It is boring and slow at times. Do not wast your time. Do not waste your money. This movie is pooh. Who are these people who keep giving it 5. It is not a 5. It is a 4. Do not see this movie. It a horror movie that is not scary. It is a lot of pooh pooh. Do not see it. See Godzilla. See King Kong (1933). Do not see this movie. See Kong skull island. Do not see this. This will put you to sleep.

Yep, kind of spoiler is here.The point of the movie is such: The current US political machine (regime) is a true monster. They planted the extraterrestrial creatures in the Middle East (some satellite has crushed in the region that's why the new infected zone has emerged in the region too in addition to Mexican one from the first movie). They are devastating the region as no one else trying to fight the contamination (as we see in the movie most of the sufferings of the locals come as a collateral damage — a really huge one — from US military strikes on the aliens, and local militias are starting fight back, because US forces for them — and for US troops themselves too — are scarier than alien beasts). It also happens that in the case the brute force isn't effective at all, because it leads not to an inhibition and solution of the problem, but to much more widespread contamination and aggravation (In the end main character stares aghast how from under the desert some tremendously huge horny Satan comes to the surface — the end).It is clear and straight metaphor of monstrous US foreign policy, which directly and indirectly gave the birth to wide range of terrorist groups and movements in the Middle East in the process of removing of local governments, then they pretended to fight the terrorists devastating the local countries in the process, then — as outcome of all of that — much more sinister forces have been emerged (ISIS like ones) and some unpleasant consequences (may be for all of us, not just for the Middle East) just follow.The story tells us, that though US troops do their monstrous job, they are not monsters as themselves personally. The policy tortures them in it's own way too. The question they rise is simple: «What am I doing here?» The question which the movie rises: Who is the real Monster in whose interests all this happens?The movie maybe is not really entertaining, but it has a message.

I stayed away from this movie for a almost year because of the terrible 1 star rating it had on Netflix. Has the movie going public's I.Q. really dropped that much? This is a character driven and well done movie, with excellent special effects and production. It's very metaphorical and you could apply the human's perception of the 'monsters' to all sorts of subjects. This is the anti-thesis of the latest 'Godzilla' were it's just noise, paper thin characters and no plot. You've actually got to invest a little attention to what is going on. This is really good science fiction much in the tradition of 'Planet of the Apes''Soylent Green' and 'Rollerball' in it's social consciousness. Ignore the haters and give this movie a chance.