Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming fantasy-adventure film directed by Tim Burton. It is an extension to the Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The film will use a [...]
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Starring:James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent
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Theatrical release date: Jan 13, 2012
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Jan 6, 2012
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Review:
In this lumbering sci-fi thriller from the former art director who has worked with Spielberg, Fincher, Gilliam and the Coen brothers, the Earth's capital cities are simultaneously invaded by murderous extraterrestrials apparently in need of minerals to sustain them.
This being a co-production between Russia and the United States, the film is set in Moscow and the principal focus is on four young Americans, two of them pretty girls, the other two randy males in the IT business, in town to launch a new invention and explore local female talent. They meet up at a flash disco where they also encounter a cynical Swedish entrepreneur who has stolen the guys' unpatented innovation.
Suddenly the lights go out and the sky is full of descending electric filaments that resemble a storm of Tinkerbells, only more lethal. Animals and human beings disintegrate when targeted by these aliens and pretty soon the five foreigners, having found sanctuary in the disco's storeroom, are the only survivors in a deserted Moscow.
The empty streets are eerie but commonplace, familiar from endless Hollywood B-movies of the 1950s onwards, and the scenario predictably involves forming an uneasy alliance with bands of Russians who, in this post-cold war world, prove to be brave and dependable. Unfortunately the aliens, for all their seeming invulnerability, have a dreary, unthreatening presence and when, inevitably, their achilles heel is discovered, weapons are improvised to exploit it. The most alarming moment is the revelation that there might be a sequel.
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