Skyline

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2011 Bunch of cheesy alien space ships start slurping up the citizens of Los Angeles while a group of extraordinarily hollow nobodies in a penthouse tries to avoid being ingested. This impossibly derivative alien-invasion mess is from Greg and Colin Strause, the former SFX wonks who brought us Alien […]

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2011

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Bunch of cheesy alien space ships start slurping up the citizens of Los Angeles while a group of extraordinarily hollow nobodies in a penthouse tries to avoid being ingested. This impossibly derivative alien-invasion mess is from Greg and Colin Strause, the former SFX wonks who brought us Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. You’d think they could have at least come up with some cool stuff to look at, since they’ve clearly not spent a lot of time on characterization, the plot, the writing, the acting, innovation or providing the merest reason to see it. Not scary, not clever. Not even so bad it’s good.

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