Who is rating this so low?

So you're saying that a man with the knowledge of a caveman can get into a flight simulator for a week and know how to fly a military jet and fly it well enough to defeat a greatly advanced civilizations weaponry piloted by the aliens trained military personal? I also liked how the guy in the flight simulator kept saying "piece of caKe", I kept thinking, he doesn't even know what cake is! Let's also not forget that those jets and the jet fuel had been sitting around for a thousand years, but somehow still worked. The story had almost no believability and that is why it has a 2.4 rating on IMDB and did so well at the Razzies. Simply put, it is recognized as one of the worst films ever. For the record, I watched it and gave it a fair shake before I had any idea how bad it was and only came here on IMDB to see if others thought it was as bad as I did.

BECUZ HUMANZ DIDN'T HAVE FLIGHT SIMZ WHEN THEY ORIGINALLY CREATED THE HARRIERZ, YO!

Either that, or you didn't understand the point that INTELLIGENT HUMANS weren't able to defeat the aliens with the EXACT SAME HARRIERS AS THE CAVEMEN USED. Because the cavemen were OBVIOUSLY MUCH SMARTER. BECAUSE FLIGHT SIMS, DUH!

My so dumb!

Wow, are you so dumb that you can't even follow the plot to this movie? The humans had a learning machine(flight simulator), and the main guy used the alien learning machine. That's how they learned to fly jets. Duh.

"The humans had a learning machine(flight simulator), and the main guy used the alien learning machine. That's how they learned to fly jets."

It takes pilot candidates years to train to fly conventional jets, never mind the much more complex Harrier. Flight simulators are only part of training. Two other very important parts of training are ground school, and actually flying the real plane with an extremely experienced instructor pilot sitting in the back seat (yes, there are 2 seat training versions).

And of every 10 people that apply, only 1 is good enough, i.e. only 10% of pilot candidates are good enough to complete training. And those that do qualify are still regarded as rookies until they have years of service under their belt.

And we are expected to believe that these savages became proficient pilots in a couple of weeks? Please.

Add to that the fact that a Harrier can only hover for a total of 90 seconds per flight, and that it can't hover at all when it has a full fuel and weapons load. Also, there's no way a Harrier is going to fly after sitting in storage for 1,000 years. These extremely complex machines require huge amounts of maintenance and TLC to operate.

What we saw in the movie just wasn't believable to anyone who isn't completely ignorant of such things, like you are.

If you look at the Global ratings and many professional critiques about this Garbage you'll realise that you are In a minority (i.e. those requiring a brain). To "shoot-down" (haha) your comment, have you never heard of erosion and the other effects of time and environment? Even aircraft that are not being used still need to be maintained on a DAILY basis - and you think It's possible to fly a pile of rust after 365,000 days without It?
Do you think you'd make a good fighter-pilot after even YEARS on a simulator without the help of Instructors and teachers and many hours of real-flight training? Of course not! Yet you are so naïve as to think "Human animal" cavemen could fly their piles of rust expertly.
The cities, by the way, would be far more decayed and deeply entwined with vegetation to the point that the few partially-remaining buildings would appear to be afforested hills who's Interiors would likewise be choked with vegetation. Even If you could chop and slash your way Into one, It'd Just be an empty carcass open to the elements. All the books long since eaten by bugs, NOT gracefully aging. All those tiny electronics long-since ruined by age, damp, Insects, never to work again. I suggest you educate yourself by watching this great documentary, "Earth without people" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyEUyqfrScU

As for the film Itself, I'd clearly be wasting my time If I listed all the points that make It total crap. You'd be unable to grasp It anyway so why bother. Diagnosis - Brain transplant urgently required

That wouldn't work. Do you really think you could put a person who have never even seen a plane into a simulator and they would just get it? It's still only one point on the list. The plot is not too smart to get, it's too dumb.