This flick is actually much better than you'd expect. Seems with all the production issues, this film became the recent "cool-to-hate" trend, but given a shot on it's own merits, it's a nice little science fiction film.
The production issues and reshoots are obvious at times, but what's also obvious is what director Josh Frank was trying to go for. Particularly in the first two acts, the film feels more related to the sci-fi/horror genre than it does the superhero genre. The third act turns into more of your generic save the world type stuff, but even so, this film isn't nearly the disaster most reviews would leave you to believe.
I would actually REALLY love to see Trank's original ideas in his 2+ hour edit, but unfortunately that's unlikely to happen after the studio took control from him and changed the end result, leaving bad blood between the two.
Taking into consideration that this film is basically a work print of what could have, and SHOULD have been, I'll give it a 7/10
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