Teen flick passing off as a Sci Fi film where the aliens conveniently look like humans, don't waste your time.

Contains spoilers. I have seen a few clips from this film on Youtube and thought it might be interesting, so, when I found it in a bargain bin yesterday, going for next to nothing, I paid the paltry few dollars and brought it home.I played it last night and reached the end of the miserable thing wishing that I had left it in the bin and used the paltry few dollars to buy something useful, like liquorice allsorts. You get what you pay for, I guess.Just about every teen flick/post-apocalyptic/alien invasion/wrong-guys-are-the-bad-guys cliché has been recycled in this mind-numbingly vapid waste of 108 minutes of my life. The heroine, Cassie, stumbles from one life-threatening moment to the next and barely gets her hair mussed or face dirty - by halfway through the film I was starting to get sick of close-ups of her perfectly clean, pretty face.I actually started to get twitchy early on in the film, but nearly reached breaking point when the military massacred the adults in the gunfight at the survivours camp and departed, leaving their own dead behind - and their weapons! In light of later revelations, the apparently callous abandonment of their own casualties could be explained, but no military walks off leaving behind weapons than could later be used against them.Expecting a viewer to accept that small children could, in only a few weeks, be turned into combat soldiers, was pushing things a bit far, but it has apparently worked in parts of Africa, so why not the USA too? But then those same children were sent into battle at night, wearing lights on their helmets! Why not just give each a bullhorn so that she/he could stand out in the open and shout at the enemy, "Here I am! Here I am!"The final nail in the coffin for this awful film was expecting the viewer to believe that one man could carry enough explosives to blow an entire airfield and its buildings into a huge hole in the ground. By then, thank the Lords of Kobol, there were only a few minutes left in this film, so I sweated it out to the end and vowed never to watch it again.I have two teenage granddaughters who like lightweight films, but they wouldn't be able to stomach even this.This film gets two stars from me, and lucky to get even that.

The poor user reviews here should not be taken as gospel. Give it a shot. Has some major actors in parts and the main characters, the daughter and her brother, do a surprisingly good acting job. The story is well paced, effective, and kept my interest.

It´s nice to have nice hair during the invasion. If you want to kill apocalypsist movie right from the start, just put all the characters living in a forest, surviving and looking like they have endless suply of hair products??? Is it because people don´t want to see dirty or the actors don´t like to be seen as "ungly"? ....But they keep selling this to the netflix, cos it is the best, and I´m over my teens, so ... ..and why they cut Thors hair?