I actually almost saw this movie in the theater when it came out in 2000. More than five years later we picked it up for less than five bucks at Wal-Mart and realized that I had narrowly escaped a lackluster movie-going experience. Last year I read the sprawling novel by L. Ron Hubbard, and I thought that the first half would make a good movie. (The second half of the book really should have been a sequel, because it was so different in scope and tone.) It had a conflict between evil aliens and heroic human underdogs and some moderately imaginative science ideas tossed around — all you could ever hope for in a sci-fi movie. The actual product, however, just dropped the ball. It had some weird editing and some strange parts, but it just wasn’t put together well. It’s a shame, really, because a fight between humans and aliens with space ships and jets and lazor guns and machine guns would at least catch the male demographic. In the extra features John Travolta talks about how ground-breaking the movie was going to be. Sorry, John, it wasn’t The Matrix. But it might have been worth the $4.88 we spent on it.
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