New sci-fi action flick by a couple visual f/x guys. Made on a micro budget ($500K) that they then throw a ton of money at for the F/X ($10M). So the F/X are probably good, but how's the story?
The story: a group of friends are at a birthday party in a high rise apartment building when aliens attack and begin killing everything in sight and this group and a few others struggle to survive.
Was it good?
No. There are some cool things to it (and as a wanna-be-filmmaker I was impressed they made it for under $11M), but ultimately the story just doesn't have anything to it. The alien attack from the people's POV is fine, but there isn't really anything to the characters (in fact they are pretty annoying), and there isn't any character arc or anything else to really draw you in. It feels like a lot of plot, some neat weird moments, a lot of not-neat action moments and then an ending that is almost laughably bad.
This is one that has enough interesting elements that you might want to see it, but I doubt many people will be glad they did.
***AVOID **
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