fabio wrote:


The whole point of the original was the audience not having the complete picture and the characters acting intelligently based on what they knew at the moment. Here they try to Gus Van Sant copy some scenes from the original, but there's no tension because it's just the characters playing catch up to what the audience already knows to scenes that have already happened. The characters not only learn about the shapeshifting early on, but also come up with a simple fool proof alien test. Every following crises is a result of their own stupidity.