Another CGI movie with too much talking and too little enemy-contact action.

When enemies try to destroy us, they will always stand on the first line...

A rag tag bunch of marines from different teams join together to battle the aliens who have invaded California to steal the water from our oceans. The whole alien invasion genre has gotten old waaay before this movie reared its head. From Independence Day and its sequel, to Cloverfield, to Pacific Rim, to Battleship and a million others, theyre all pretty much the same. Introduce characters, insert a few dysfunctional ones, eveeuthings fine until aliens invade *insert city here* . Battles and destruction ensue, insert a few heroic deaths, the sense of defeat for the human race, insert a inspirational speech, then one final stand for mankind that ends with the aliens defeated. Ehhh. It all gets to be quite boring

It's all a matter of taste, I suppose. If you're really into the action stuff - and if you are, that's great - you'll love this movie. There's lots of action in this. Lots of gunfights, lots of combat. What was believed to be a meteor shower actually turned out to be aliens whose ships land in the oceans and start to attack 20 earth cities. Obviously, this movie centres on the battle for Los Angeles, basically following a platoon of US Marines as they do battle with the bad guys from outer space and try to protect a few civilians they come across while doing so. Beyond that there's no real plot or story to this. We really don't learn very much about the aliens or why they were attacking - except that they wanted our water. It reminded me a little bit of War of the Worlds - although that (actually both movie versions) was better.The characters really aren't especially fleshed out or interesting. We get a bit of a backstory on Staff Sargeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhardt.) He had led a platoon in Afghanistan or Iraq (can't remember if it was named specifically) and lost some men. He blames himself for their loss and was getting ready to retire until he was sent back into battle with the platoon fighting the alien invaders. Fortunately for him the brother of one of the men he lost was in the same platoon. So there's a bit of interplay there, some mistrust, some respect having to be re-earned. But basically this was about the battle. It went on for too long. It was well portrayed, but after a while I started to lose interest, to be honest, because it didn't really seem to be going anywhere, and you knew eventually where it would have to go - these aliens would have to be defeated. So, for about half the movie I was paying attention; then my mind did begin to wander a bit as I waited for the end.What it comes right down to is that this is pretty standard stuff about an alien invasion of earth. There's nothing especially unique about it to capture or hold your attention. If you like non-stop battles with invaders from outer space - this is your kind of movie. For me: 4/10