NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

BelSports 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.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

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

gaykathleen One reviewer just did a retell of the whole script. Pathetic! Usually I check out a movie on IMDB before viewing it. This one I put on without checking it out beforehand. I guessed the scores to well above what has been awarded to it. As one who is not a fan of SciFi I actually enjoyed the movie. The acting was very convincing. The storyline kept me involved throughout. Although aimed at a teenage audience our adult daughter informed us she had already seen it as well as reading the book. There is enough variety to appeal to older audiences and I'd you like kids then you will enjoy the youth. There is a twist or two along the way and the movie ends on a reasonable note without closing off the story or leaving you up in the air. It makes you think as well. It is not mindless alien rubbish. Some critics are too harsh and not even able to substantiate giving it shockingly low scores. I think seven is a fair score even if you are not a teen!

dsmith6068 If you know the book trilogy, of which this is just the first book, then you know the secret of the alien "others." It could have been revealed in this movie, but then the movie would never have been made. The "Others" are rabid environmentalists, going around the universe to different planets killing off the top-dog species on each planet on the assumption that the top species is a danger to all the others. So that is their motive to exterminating the human race. But you can't have "good" environmentalists as "bad" aliens without a lot of thinking, which this movie doesn't have.

invisibleunicornninja The book may have been stupid - but at least it was well written. The reason why this story is unique is because it is so mindbogglingly stupid that no one would actually put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard to share it with other people. This movie could've been fun if it was self-aware. The problem is that it takes itself way too seriously. It takes a dumb idea and tried prestent it as genius. The Plot - I don't want to put in any spoilers, but this plot is stupid and convoluted. Its kinda fun in the book because its presented well, but in the movie, its even dumber. All I would have to do to get you saying "wtf" is describe the plot. Its really dumb. The Acting - All of the acting is terrible. While watching this, I both laughed and I cringed. The child actors have terrible direction and no talent. If I was a child in this movie, and looked back at my performance in this nonsense, I'd try to avoid every being recognized in it. Its so bad. I feel bad for a lot of the people who were involved in this money grab.Effects - The cinematography and the special effects are all terrible. This movie looks really cheap. The whole look of it is very bad. Action - The action is really bad. I could go on, but really it would be more of the same. Everything about this movie is really cheap and bad. Its not worth watching. I wish this movie was more self-aware about how dumb it is. Then we could've had a fun dumb action movie. Instead we got 2 hours of pretentious nonsense.

stefdemile What a colossal waste of my time and somebody's $38 million. I watched this because I'm a fan of YA sci-fi and Chloe Grace Moretz. But neither of those could save this badly written, badly directed mishmash of flashback, overblown special effects and a plot that is just a bunch of bits and pieces rounded up from other YA films, and randomly thrown into this one. If I were Chloe Grace Moretz I'd be firing my agent for letting me do a film this bad.