Fantastic!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

OK, so it lacked the razzamataz special effects that carry most modern scifi flicks beyond their plot and character failings. This is a movie that clearly didn't have a mega-budget but did exceptionally well in spite of that. The plot is similar to the remake of the original DTESS, We're bad and we're going to be removed for the sake of the planet. Prove that we're worth survivability and the removal will be negated. Obviously we survive. Yet the reasoning in both movies is similar; the demonstration, through a single individual, that there is merit within us. In the very original of course, we were simply given a warning, both the latter movies went a step further. I like all three and this particular version is as good as the others.

The Day the Earth Stopped Spoilers Ahead! This is desperation TV watching, at its finest.Hey I like quality challenged movies as much as the next guy. But this.....This was definitely challenged! This movie never darkened a theatre. Why it was so popular, it went straight to DVD! Yeah. A real brain clogging movie extravaganza! No acting. No plot. And all the robot action is contained in the trailer.Were there any good parts to the movie? Well let's see.Guillermo J. Silberstein musical masterpiece, definitely tied the contact lens acting and thinly veiled plot line all together into one cohesive ball of cheesy challenge.Rated as 1 out of 10 by 40% of the viewers on the Internet Movie Data Base, you know that this is going to be a complete waste of the next 90 minutes of your life.The best thing: This movie is currently available at just about any RedBox, for the paltry sum of $1 (plus taxes, which vary).If I had this to do over, I'd spend the buck on a lotto ticket!

It just wasn't up with the times in terms of effects, I think as a kid I would have liked it but now as a supposed adult, I found it a little ridiculous.Acting was sub-par except for the main Josh character. Quite a few disconnects in editing.Didn't like the girl main character, she was too model-like, not sci-fi enough.I think another movie just like this came out last year with Canoehead Reeves that I remember. That movie was better simply because the effects were better. The acting was also sub-par in that movie but I liked it better than this one.Sci-Fi not up to par lately. Going to review Star Trek next.

If this is a "B Movie," then grade inflation has certainly hit hard since the fifties.This is more like a D- movie, and that only because I'm feeling charitable.How awful is this movie? Let me count but a few of the ways: The acting is atrocious; the music one-note and distracting; and the scenery depressing and repetitive. Pretty much everything in it is unbelievable, from the ridiculous handling of the aliens by unprofessional morons who are each others' worst enemies, to the previously mentioned baby, born clean and dry and three months old in the back of the car.The "science" was non-existent, and the premise far more vague than in other the-earth-is-about-to-end type movies. Did I mention the writing is horrible? About the only good thing in the movie was the megaliths, and they were pointlessly anthropomorphized.My husband brought this home from Red Box, and that's a dollar and an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back. I would have stopped watching, but didn't want to leave him by himself.