An average movie

I remember, when I saw the trailer, I seriously thought it could be pretty badass but then I heard only bad things about this flick so I wasn't that enthusiast anymore. Well, it must have been one of the most misleading trailer I have ever seen. I mean, there were a few nice action scenes but nothing remotely badass like I saw in this trailer. Basically, it was some kind of mix between 'Black Hawk Down' and 'War of the World'. The big difference is that Jonathan Liebesman definitely doesn't play in the same league as Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg, that's for sure. I mean, you could argue that the story was pretty weak concerning 'War of the World' but, at least, Spielberg knew how to create some excitement from this story. Here, you just have a bunch of faceless soldiers going from one point to another without much coherence and, somehow, miraculously, they manage to save the city. I still believe that the concept had some potential but the whole thing was just terribly underwhelming. On the positive side, Aaron Eckhart remains a very dependable actor, probably one of the most underrated actors at work nowadays, and he did what he could with this thankless job (Apparently, he said he never had so much fun in a movie before and he would love to return for a sequel. What a terrible idea...). To conclude, it was yet another piece of evidence that you should never judge a movie by its trailer, it was just a very weak SF feature and it is not really worth a look, even if you love the genre.

5/10