Film Reviews by JH

This is the best bad film I have seen in years. It does not claim to be more than it is, it is completely upfront about the blatant plagiarism throughout and it is competently, in places excellently, made. Sometimes, checking your brain at the door of the cinema is just what a person needs to do.

Who are the monsters? The aliens or the humans? The Americans or the Arabs? This is a film about a lot of the scary things that are going on in our world today, all wrapped up in an allegorical tale set in a world very like our own but where the Martians are winning. Valour is amoral, heroes are villains and children are both killed and do the killing. Meaning is fabricated because, ultimately, all is pointless.