"Now you got three hours to get your ass back before those bombs drop, and make no mistake THEY WILL DROP! with... or without you"
Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) is on the verge of
retiring from the US Marines when he gets called back into action one last time
to help repel an alien attack on
This is a film with a multitude of problems which start with
the character introductions. For a start there are too many, all introduced
with a minute or two of back story. They are all stock characters which have
been seen a thousand times. We have the guy who’s getting married, the untested
Officer, the guy whose brother was killed, the guy in therapy, the guy from New
Joizey, the guy from Texas and perhaps more unusually the guy from Nigeria who enlisted
for citizenship. I couldn’t tell you any more about the characters than that
and never really cared for any of them. Later they are joined by a female Air
Force (pilot? I think) (Michelle Rodriguez) along with five civilians, three of
which are children.
