It’s October, so you know what that means: it’s horror film season! And this year, we actually got something good out of it, despite a string of cheap gore-fests that have become so popular in recent years (cough the Saw franchise cough).
The alien invasion thriller is pretty well-worn territory: evil, ill-tempered aliens invade Earth, but humans (usually freedom-touting Americans with fancy machinery) prevail and mankind is saved.