To me, this movie is perfection.

the audience applauded

It is a performances centric movie

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie never stops and nevef wastes time with explanations.Good choreography.It´s always a pleasure to watch Iko Uwais fighting.Nice visual effects .The space ship and the aliens look decent.And the most important: The story does not take place in the USA,like in most scifi movies.Instead it show amazing ancient asian temples.People who love martial arts and sci-fi movies will enjoy this one.

I didn't have high hopes, but less than 15 minutes in someone actually says "Run for your lives!" That's when I decided I'd rather West Wing reruns.

Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) finds himself on a stalled subway as the alien invasion begins. LAPD cop Audrey (Bojana Novakovic) tries to keep the group on the train but they insist on leaving. Mark barely saves his hypnotized son Trent from being pulled up to the alien spaceship. The survivors travel along the underground.If the original is a B-movie, this is basically a C-movie. This follows a different group of survivors during that same assault. In the original, I found the last part to be problematic. This movie takes that last part and just keeps going. One also has to remember the red eyed alien from the original and his pregnant girlfriend. The brain thing really doesn't make logical sense. In the original, I took it as poetic license similar to aliens draining our blood in "War of the Worlds". I can't do that this time around since this builds a complete premise around it. At least, it's not a computer virus but it's not that far. For an alien futurism combat, there is way too much hand-to-hand fighting. This has its fun but I can't take it seriously.

Terrible music, terrible acting, terrible writing and terrible sequel. Worst movie I've seen start to finish. Total waste of one hour and forty-six minutes.