Driving by her deep will of saving earth from aliens horrible attack, Aki Ross, a smart and courageous scientist, who returns to earth to save it from the horrible attack of aliens, Phantoms, the thing that challenges her.
The human figure, however, remains a challenge to current CGI technology, since the detailing of hair and freckles, for instance, proves rather more credible than the marionette-like impression created by cold eyes and oddly unconvincing body movements.
This bigscreen adaptation of the long-popular interactive computer game is visually impressive if not dramatically cool, and is marked by "acting" that is no worse than that found in the majority of sci-fi films.
Observer (UK)
April 12, 2010
It's possible that the effect might be different if this were not a soggy, derivative SF movie and we had more to engage and divert us.
After you're done marveling at the characters' semirealistic way of moving and the freckles and minor imperfections that dot their skin ... it's all too easy to get hung up on the things that make them seem clumsy and awkward.
I never stopped marveling at the thousands of individually delineated pores and hair strands of the heroine, but the thin story covering her acquisition of one wave after another while narrowly escaping death time and again is strictly for player one.
