Everything you could want in an action film.
5/10
Author: Paul Alexander
7 April 2013

*** This review contain spoilers ***

So, your a super duper advanced race of hip-hop goatee wearing bald orange alien dudes and you have just had your planet not only attacked by a fantastic communications device that spews laser beams but which has also been horrifically named. Enough to annoy anyone. So off you set with 5 space craft armed only with mortar rounds, soldiers armed with tin openers and a special kind of glass covering the bridge of your ship that can remain structurally intact during deep space flight and atmospheric entry but is useless against the power of the bullets of a barrett 50 cal sniper rifle fired from the front end of a ship.

Anyway, en-route to said planet your only form of communication, a communications ship (who would have thought of putting some form of ET phone home mobile phone system on each one?!) is taken out, ironically by a satellite. Now, at this point you would have thought that seeing as you have gone to hassle of developing deep space flight and some form of advanced analytical radar system to work out where this mystical laser beam has come from and that it is in fact a deep space communications array...you would wack on the space brakes, about face and fly on over to it and send a signal to send in the rest of the fleet to destroy and plunder.

If this would have happened, then this pointless yet Stallone level of epicness of an action film would have never have been made. Other underlying themes are: 1) if your disabled you still have the power to beat aliens up. 2) if your old you still have a purpose and that purposes is to swear lots and to blow aliens up. 3) if your a woman you can crash cars to blow aliens up. 4) long seated cultural and political differences can be ignored to blow aliens up. 5) everyone looks cool with guns, but only if you are using them to blow aliens up. 6)rihanna can only defend herself when she is blowing aliens up. 7)English rock bands make the American navy look good when they are blowing aliens up.

And remember aliens if you arrive on this earth with advanced technologies that you have used to destroy your own planet in a barrage of what can only be nuclear weapons don't attack us with our simple weapons. No no, head to Miami with your cool floaty bouncy space boats and party with them ladies.