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Falls Apart During the Second Half


Saw it again tonight. Starts off excellently but then starts to fall apart during the second half. Did it bother anyone else that the people who were being controlled by the aliens were super-strong and damn hard to knock down during the first half of the film, but when Sam and Alex went to rescue Mary Sam was basically just knocking out every person he came into contact with with ONE PUNCH (and one time he just pushed a guy against a wall and that was enough). Come on! Consistancy people!

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I agree.

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it may have been sloppy writing or directing, but my other guess was that was because they had all the adrenaline pumping through the hosts, they couldn't overexert the body, so they had to restrict how powerful (how much adrenaline had to be forced through their bodies) this would prevent the host from dying and getting exhausted faster. thats my theory, but hey its a movie, i agree the first half is way better then the second.

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To me it felt like they had the beginning mapped out but, just a vague idea about the second half/end. Or maybe there were drastic changes made for some reason. I've heard of such things in commentaries over the years.
I still watch it quite a bit. It's a good rainy day movie.

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Not to mention one of the lamest final scenes in any movie - hero and heroin talk banalities and walk off down a street full of emergency vehicles, credits roll, like a bad made-for-TV movie ...

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I enjoyed it, but agree, the first half was excellent and well done. The aliens were creepy and the way they took over hosts was gross. The scene with the chimps and the scene where they're communicating with the alien on the male lead were unnerving.

The second half seemed liked they were running over time and money and had to rush the story along to a conclusion.

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Not to mention one of the lamest final scenes in any movie - hero and heroin talk banalities and walk off down a street full of emergency vehicles, credits roll, like a bad made-for-TV movie ...


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