Rotten Tomatoes: 9%
Kids-In-Mind: 4.5.3
Well. The most I can say for this movie was that it wasn't totally terrible. Yes, most of it was, but I was expecting that. I hoped for a bit more since I heard that the movie was good from a few people, but I have to admit that I wasn't expecting much from a movie based on a book by Stephanie Meyer. There were a few good things in it. For instance, the moral was a good one if delivered rather heavy-handedly. The story itself was interesting if painfully predictable. My favorite part was probably the cave setting where the humans hide out. If nothing else, the visuals were kind of cool. And now for the bad parts. It was predictable, the dialogue was often cheesy, the character's motivations were very confusing, and everything was just plain too easy. The alien antagonists were never very threatening to me, even the supposedly evil Seeker (who was one of the characters with wildly confusing motivations) so there was never much warranted tension beyond that trumped up by the overly dramatic characters. Maybe this movie would make more sense if I read the book, but I really don't think I'm going to.
