How on earth did they manage to make such an awesome film with these great visual effects on such a small budget? The film is fascinating! From beginning to end, there really never is a dull moment, and very unpredictable, too. This was just freakin' awesome!! The ending was a bit weird, but all good, though.

SPOILER: The movie itself is good, I did not like the main actress, it did not seem charismatic, and it got annoying, the ending is completely meaningless, and this is what harms the movie. An alien invasion, facing military, so far everything ok, but then the aliens kidnap the main character and turn him into a monster? Serious?

I don't get the hatred this film has received. It seems that people don't like rich yuppie kids, so the movie is automatically bad, which it really isn't. One thing that it is not, is original: It's about 80% copy of the War of the Worlds, but with different kind of ending.Regardless, the film is well made, the actors are adequately good, the plot works (not much is explained, but it doesn't need to be), movie's internal logic works and people don't act stupidly (mostly). It's not a masterpiece, but good and well made scifi movie. It's much better than for instance Spielberg's official remake of War of the Worlds.

Overall it was a decent movie. Personally im just tired of so many alien invasion movies. nothing but fear porn in my mind. what if we do get first contact and we respond just like lower civilized fools. then they decide to wipe us all out. im honestly tired of the same old crap HolyWeird pumps out. No good educational content just brainwashing MK-1 Ultra garbage. sure its 8 years old but still worth the watch regardless of how poisonous to the mind.