The sub-Apocalypse Now existential/colonial angst lacks any form of grounding, despite committed performances from the core cast who engage in much tooth-baring, breast-beating, and shouty soul-searching.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2015

There are some inventive moments along the way, but these are interspersed with lots of posturing, yelling and brawling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2015

One to miss.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 30, 2015

If the idea is to show that war makes monsters of us all, then writer-director Tom Green can't quite seem to bring his film to say it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 30, 2015

A desert-set men-on-a-mission movie complete with jabbering jihadis, macho hysteria and the occasional extraterrestrial waving its tentacles in the background as if to say: 'Isn't this supposed to be about me?'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 29, 2015

Although Edwards is onboard for the new "Monsters: Dark Continent" as an executive producer, the sequel bears no resemblance to his original, thematically or stylistically.

| Apr 16, 2015

...the film turns into something along the lines of American Alien-Sniper, but without the endlessly arguable ethical ambiguity.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 16, 2015

Plays like a dorm-room answer to modern war films, complete with the constant profanity and masculine hysterics that pass for impact in an immature script.

| Original Score: D | Apr 16, 2015

It's taxing to watch, and Green moves between scenes with Malick-inspired ellipses, frustrating momentum.

| Apr 14, 2015

Whatever the filmmakers' subtextual intentions may be, the film certainly gets stronger and more compelling as it goes on, thanks in part to intense emoting on the part of its cast.

| Apr 13, 2015

This works as a standalone picture with its own distinctive take on alien invasion but also expands what now seem like a franchise with potential to deliver more and varied snapshots of human behaviour in extreme circumstances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2015

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens ...

| Oct 13, 2014