| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
The usual White supremacist nonsense reflecting the fact that despite their belief in their innate superiority, that they are hated for it because others realize that such a belief is a genetic fallacy. This explains why Whites deeply suspect that anyone coming to Earth (which in the US mind begins and ends with the US) will behave as Whites themselves have done for the past 500 years: Genocide, theft, rape & slavery. Comparing this invasion with Columbus and the Indians is a tacit admission of the inherently-racist nature of White culture; leaving us with no-one to root for, as in the movie 1492.
Whites exacerbate their post-colonial decline and the insecurity it causes by making movies like this which are, in fact, coded attacks on non-White immigrants to the USA. The Earth being protected here is the Earth the US wishes to colonize and exploit as its own personal playground. The usual absurd Top Gun-like male histrionics - bordering on effeminacy - is well in evidence in an entertainment so single-mindedly devoted to militaristic jingoism: All designed to conceal the lack of any worthwhile cultural values that should be defended or need defending.
The humor is almost entirely lacking which could have made this more enjoyable. The predictable White male preoccupation with a large female bosom stands in for any full female characterization in the standard mummy’s-boy pornographic approach to sexual relations.
Whites are clearly still smarting over the humiliation of non-Whites attacking the United States on 11 September 2001 as witness here the collapsing buildings after being struck by crashing aircraft. (Pearl Harbor is also attacked again in another surprise attack.) This movie tries to create a we-are-all-in-this-together rapport between and among Americans; resulting not in people working together to solve a problem, but in every ethnicity on display here acting as if they are all doing bad impersonations of Caucasians - particularly Europeans. In reality, of course, if aliens ever attacked Earth, humans would divide into warriors and arse-lickers - mostly the latter, as they did in World War 2. This has happened in all the historical Earthbound invasions, after all, so that these heroics mostly only happen in movies.
Whites try to have it both ways here by clearly implying that these attackers have no valid reason for their attacks, unlike those of the terrorists for which this movie is an analogue. This simplifies the analogy since, in the real world, Whites pretend terrorism against them is unjustified, unlike - allegedly - the Second World War: A simplistic approach toward politics that this film tries to emulate.
Here, there is an attempted balance between fear-filled hysteria and panic with the pretense at casual insouciance to hide the fear. As with the Transformers series of movies, we are confronted with absurd, boy-toy machines that provide solace for those lacking martial skills. A battle between machines not minds; leaving the spectators with nothing to do but watch others play a computer game with poorly-drawn characters who act as though they are playing a game rather than being a part of it. This leaves us with no-one to care for and, so, no suspense.
Neither the aliens, the humans or the screenwriter here display any knowledge of well-constructed drama nor of human nature. A great pity since violent, emotional constipation leaves the audience almost rooting for the alien invaders. A great waste of SFX skill that leaves us with something more to analyze - in reviews like this - than to enjoy. If only the problems of the world were as easy to solve as they are presented here.
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