Marines versus Aliens in L.A. This starts out very promising with cool FX and just enough prologue to get everyone on deck. Once the action starts its fairly butt puckering until about halfway into the movie, then the tempo changes. What starts out as fairly straight forward US vs THEM sci-fi shoot-em-up turns into a PSA for soul searching and bonding on the battlefield. Personally I have no problem with that kind of movie and thought Black Hawk Down (2001) was an excellent example of being more than just a action movie. However it doesn't work in this case in large part because I only connected with two of the characters.. the rest could have been Lego blocks. But things do ramp back up for the finale' with a great big OORAH! (and a built in sequel). Over all not a bad viewing experience, just not what I had hoped for. But they do a great job with the FX and mechanics so visually its not disappointing.
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