Rating of
3/4
Pretty Solid
Franz Patrick - wrote on 03/19/08
Nicole Kidman is usually an ice queen (in a good way) but it's nice to see her here as a vulnerable mother whose sole goal is to save her son. I did like the style of the film--a bit distant and cold but not too much; I found the scenes where the filmmakers would shoot in wide spaces to be both lonely and scary. There were a lot of eerie scenes so I don't know what the critics are complaining about. I did care for the characters and I found their "scientific" explanations about the alien lifeform to be fascinating. I think the problem with remakes or interpretations is that people have the tendency to compare them to the original. I don't do that most of the time because, in my opinion, one has to let a film stand on its own. So, I found myself sitting back and enjoying what this film has to offer.
