Ugh, I hated this movie. Some very interesting ideas, but it was too slow and ultimately went absolutely nowhere. One thing I don't understand is: Why are they all freaked out when the aliens use the word "weapon"? How the heck did they learn that word if it wasn't used before?

My biggest reason for loathing this film, however, is its ending. It's one of those stupid saved-by-self-from-the-future deus ex machina endings. Aside from not making any real sense as…

A man is raising his kids in the woods, brainwashing them against the modern world. They're factually intelligent, but culturally and socially inexperienced. The film never worked for me as I could never get myself to empathize with the annoyingly stupid condescending main character; he never felt real to me, he always felt like a concept that a writer came up with, despite Viggo Mortensen's worthy performance.

I also did not think it was dramatically fair for no other characters…