Michael Bakshi

Die Hard on a plane with added bite. Better than I expected, though it is a tad overlong, and it gets a little frenetic in places. Still, it does something different with the vampire genre, and that is quite refreshing.

Fighting against these things every 15 years, they have not been very poor and if entertained

I am tired of finding faults in this movie, there are so many of them. Please do not let these scriptwriters write any more scripts.
2 stars for good VFX.Why did this alien, who waited for 200000 years to give just 3 orders, bungle 1 of them? Why was this advance craft not capable of emitting the 2nd wave more than once? If Ra had the weapons of the rest of the world at his disposal, why did he send foot soldiers to group and attack? He could have just made them throw bombs and missiles and blow 'The Circle of Life' to kingdom come. I mean, he did blow up the outpost towards the end, so why not the rest of it?
Why did Ra even stay on the building when he knew Sasha had seen him there? He could have just walked to another building. Why were all of the zombies/freaks/radio-controlled humanoids/whatever just attacking the building from one direction? There were lots of other roads leading to the building, as is evident from the overhead shots. In the spaceship at the end, why didn't they just shoot the main pipes - you know, the fat ones?

This should have been a miniseries, and I think it would work great as such. But trying to press all they wanted to do into a movie just did not.

Individual parts of this movie are great. Most parts even. They pulled of some great stuff with the limited budget they had, they got some great actors and they created a really cool world here. But because they couldn't fit everything into the movie format, they had to cut down on a lot of necessary stuff, and it shows.
The pacing is off. A lot of character work is missing. The story is ultimately very limited, almost straightforward if you really strip it down to the key points, yet feels confusing and thrown together because there are all these loose ends that seem to connect to parts of the larger story that just aren't in this movie. And because a lot of story parts are so stripped down, it even sometimes feels like they are telegraphing later reveals, because so much of the surrounding stuff that should be in here and would normally obscure those references is left out of the film.
It's a little frustrating. I appreciate what they achieved given the limitations, but I just can't help but look at all of the seams and stitches in there and miss the miniseries that this should have been.