Mildly disappointing, coming as it does from the writer-director of The Arrival, an efficient little s-f thriller in the body-snatcher mode. David Twohy has here an idea even more modest and rudimentary: spaceship crash-lands on planet of monsters. But the monsters crave the dark and shun the light, and the desolate planet has three suns and no night -- so no problem, seemingly, until the planet Saturn moves smack-dab into the solar path. This is the best moment in the movie: the winged creatures, part-bat, part-pterodactyl, funnelling into the sky from their conical caves. There, and everywhere, however, Twohy relies much more on photographic tricks and gimmicks -- bleached color, filters, psychedelia, computer animation, jiggled and jostled cameras, God knows what all. It would appear he wants not so much to tell a tale, after all, as to be out on the cutting edge, like everybody else. With Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, and Keith David. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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