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Utterly disappointed with this film. Im disappointed that while there were diverse young ethnic females in this film, they did not put Captain Mitchell "in his rightful place" by making him look like a bumbling archaic male fool. Im also annoyed that I did not have any Hollywood social political agendas rammed down my throat. I was terribly annoyed that yet another great movie franchise was NOT forced to die a horrible, slow death at the hands of modern woke writers.

Great acting, beyond incredible direction by the great Joseph Kosinski, a pretty good story, amazingly-well filmed aircraft scenes, and just enough nostalgia and nods to the original just cant save this film. If you want to feel like a kid again (something that Hollywood productions have not managed to do to me for the last 10 years or so) then see this great film.

Its OK. Obviously made at the time of borderline CGI though, which is obvious. At times the large bug effects had me in hysterics as they look naff by todays standards.

Like most Stephen King adaptions, this one gets really bogged down in making points on societal moral dilemmas and overwrought, detailed character development (there is far too much time spent on the nutty Christian woman for example).

The saving grace of this adaptation is that there are some fairly gross horror moments at times, and almost the whole cast of The Walking Dead are on here (plus Thomas Jane is great).

In my view this one just cant compete with the practical-effects awesomeness of either the Thing or the Blob - which I enjoyed far more. This movie otherwise has fairly glacial pacing which will put a lot of people off.

Not bad if you have time to kill I guess.

Hard to believe I know, based on recent efforts (and manufactured good reviews on compromised aggregator sites like RT).

Good acting, good actors, actual realistic stories. Amazing set pieces. Good action sequences. A great lack of Mary Sue's saving the day, and the men in this are refreshingly portrayed not as being completely inept or utter clowns. There is also a refreshing lack of pointless fetch-quests that marked the recent Abrahms "movies."

The world-building is done with great care and the actual effort put into the writing shows. Well worth a watch (if you havent already given up on the Disney star wars milking machine).