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First of all, let me say that I didn't dislike the movie at all, but my overall rating has to be considered lower than what the ideas it exposes (or just "hints") may deserve.

There are so many ("potentially", someone could argue) good ideas in this movie that they could have turned them into a series of movies or whatever: instead, they decided to fulfill the rules imposed by theaters and tried to stuff all of them in a standard length movie.

By watching the movie it seems that the writers were more used to writing either TV-shows or comics (although this is not the case), which are two formats that give writers the time to put many ideas in a media, and to explore every idea as deep as one wants to.

Skydance even announced years ago that they were going to make a new TV show for tying the new movies together, but it's unclear if and when this is actually going to happen.

I personally hope they will, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the many subplots explored more deeply...

It's also possible that, pushed by the will to make three movies before 2019 (when the main copyrights are going to revert to James Cameron), they wanted to push all the ideas they had in this movie: they could have released a two parts movie with a little higher budget (of course, very few "occasional viewers" would have appreciated the idea), or released it as a longer movie for a little bit higher price (theaters don't like long movies: in the era of relatively cheap 40-50in FullHD TVs theaters should stop trying to impose their rules, if they want to survive).

The plot is: almost absent, really bad, and completely unoriginal. Mix a bit of Independence day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/), a bit of Dark City (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/), add another 90% of special effect action scene, forget to explain almost everything ala Cloverfield (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/), and you get something better than Skyline...

The special effects are unoriginal too: some monsters really seem to come from Matrix, some others from the Doom video-game saga... nothing of interesting...

What I found very good, increasing the final rating I left for the movie (that originally was 3/10), is the quality of the special effects (their carrying out) compared to the very low budget: IMDb reports the movie just cost $10,000,000, which is almost nothing compared to many other movies' budget, which usually reach the same level with 100-250 million $. If there was an Oscar for the best special effect per $, this movie would deserve it... but it would also compete for the Oscar for the worst plot...

This being said, don't watch it!

I heard about this show many times, but I never wanted to watch it. Eventually I went to meet a friend who was watching it and watched a couple of episodes...

Boring is for sure the first word to describe it! It's a mess up of grotesque scenes that should be hilarious but result to be only annoyingly stupid, with characters that like to humiliate themselves with the useless hope that the watcher should consider this funny...

I don't know how can someone have decided to film a second episode if this is the average quality of the show: a show that (as 99.99999% of that kind of TV) has the only purpose to brainwash the viewer up to the lobotomy!

Don't waste your time watching this horrible mess-up of nonsenses, it's not healthy for your brain!