This movie is what it is and isn't anything more.
You know going in what to expect and you get pretty much exactly that.
Bad aliens invade America, Americans rise up and in the final moments snip the single achilles heel and win.
Don't see it if you don't like this kind of movie.
See it if you do.
Here's my sidelined thought.
This movie plays out in typical fashion like most high-action movies in a way that is very much like a video game. At the beginning, the one single alien bad guy is almost un-killable. Guns, tanks, missiles, nothing can kill him until eventually they 'figure out' how to kill him and suddenly, like they've just levelled up their skills, they can now easily kill those guys except wait, oh, no. The bad guys have even bigger bad guys. Same scenario. Can't kill it, can't kill it, can't kill it - oh killed it. ZOOOP. Level up. Now the same bullets that couldn't kill the first baddie can somehow kill the new baddie. And it goes on. Bad guys get badder, good guys level up by figuring out how to kill it, bad guys get badder, etc.
Aaron Eckhart was good. There were some touching moments. I wonder what goes through an actors mind when they're memorizing a cliche though. When Eckhart delivers his "rally the troops" speech, it must be hard not to vomit in your own mouth. He did well in that regard.
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Aaron Eckhart...Sgt. Michael Nantz
Ramon Rodriguez...2nd Lt. William Martinez
Bridget Moynahan...Michele
Adetokumboh M'Cormack...Corpsman Jibril Adukwu
Michael Peña...Joe Rincon
Michelle Rodriguez...TSgt. Elena Santos
