hyped garbage

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This movie and it's concept reminded me very much of a children's book I wrote and I wondered if the writer and makers of the film struggled as much as I did with how to tell a story with a message. I kept wondering if I had at least succeeded in telling an environmental sci-fi story without clobbering readers to death with my message. I also wondered if it's possible to tell the truth about a terrible situation without being all about the message.I found the film interesting enough to stay with it to the end and I was never bored. There were times when it seemed so professionally done and I found the acting more than satisfying but at other times, it seemed a bit amateurish. Visually, the cinematography is good and it's an enjoyable film to watch. For it's message, I very much want people to see it. I agree with an earlier review that the narrative wasn't needed and didn't add anything to the story. There were some inconsistencies with the narrative that bothered me also. The story is told by a grandmother to her two young grandchildren. The narrative drops off and the viewer begins watching the actual story unfold. I wondered if the grandmother in her telling of events to the children, edited the story for parts where the two main characters of the film work out their sexual relationship.On another note, I could see a correlation between the native music that opens the film and its theme. I assume the music was aboriginal but felt it could have been better at setting the mood and laying down some subliminal connections between the native people of Australia and the mystery surrounding the alien and the truth of her message.All in all, I would recommend it. I wish it were more polished and thought out a bit better at the end but at the same time, it has beauty and worth few films bother to convey.

First of all there are so many things wrong with this movie, but let me start with the first. This film is a combination of feminist, and extreme environmentalism that advocates bringing our technology back to the stone age, or worse.The beginning starts out well, but leaves the viewer disappointed. First of all if you were expecting this movie to be realistic you have another thing coming.1. An alien lands on earth accidentally and meats up with a outback cowboy. First of all not only does she look hominid, she is an exact copy of a human being. Nothing even looks remotely different about her compared to a homo sapien .Not only does she look human, but she lands on planet earth speaking a perfect version of the Queen's English even though the human is Australian so the universal translator failed there, if that is what she used.2. She has the ability to travel anywhere and anytime she wants, but lacks even a basic knowledge of astronomy. She can't even identify her home system, so much for the superior galactic mind even though in relative terms Epsilon isn't that far from here. She also can't teleport back to her home planet.3. Her ideas while radical even by our modern standards still run out of the human mindset that has been with the US for the better part of 50 years. Think Eco-Nazis planning to return us to caveman days.4. She arrogantly chastises the human race for their arrogance but it is pretty obvious she is way more arrogant. She is also prone to violence and doesn't seem like she is that enlightened. She even cut down the human's favorite tree he has had since childhood, therefore being part of the problem she hates, and totally destroying her claim that the universe is better than human beings.5. The narrator claims they got rid of all the books, newspapers, cities within her lifetime. Couldn't have been much longer than 40-60 years. Like they deconstructed it brick by brick. Not a long enough time-span if you think about. Would probably take centuries especially if you couldn't use technology. Overall this is a terribly pretentious movie that makes Al Gore look good. I wonder how much pollution the producer caused to make this movie and transport them to various places like the outback, or the desert near Las Vegas.

Awesome ideas with a great message...! For the age of the movie this is a great concept. Don't expect great effects or action. The movie's quality is based on conversation and messages. I recommend this movie to all people who are concerned about global warming and other futurer problems. Nowadays Global warming and the behaver of humanity is a great convcern for all people, so therefore this movie is good to watch for people that think that can make a change in the world. Support this movie by having more copy's for the public. of May somebody can tell me where to purchase the DVD or VHS. All where sold out... May somebody like to sell his copy. (-: If so please contact me via manafusion(0)gmx.de ...

This a movie which needs the story to carry itself: the scenery is nice but there is nothing much else to be seen. The story touches on a number of important social subjects such as protecting the environment and tolerance between cultures as well as SF subjects such as time-travel and alien visitors. Unfortunately it does not deliver on any of these subjects. It points out problems but never hints at any solution. And how do the aliens solve these problems? Well, they have a superior intellect and solve everything through their mind: time and space travel, energy production and everything else you can think of. I do not expect the makers to have all the answers, but just summoning up things which are wrong does not validate this movie.The beginning was promising, but I ended up being disappointed in the end