A movie that wants to pretend to be more than it is while not admitting it's real roots.

There's two partsof this film to review here. First, for the suspense part it works really well. Suspense, some mild humor, chills, a bit of mystery, that part is worth the trip.

But when it gets to the background plot, the logic of it fails, and about the last twenty minutes your mind will wake up and start to wonder if the writer knew just what to do with this. In this film, the crop circles are placed by bad aliens supposedly as markers so they can see whereto land and who ro raid. Now, suppose you're an alien with technology advanced enough to shoot you across the stars in no time at all, then further suppose you're coming in for malevolent reasons. First off, if you want to mark a place, you just take some electronic beacon about the size of a softball, drop it down someone's sewqer where the locals will never find it, then home in on it. Later one night you just land by th beacons and start snatching people without anyone ready for you or later aware that you were even there. The only reason why some alien would start drawing marks in the sand is if he'd want the locals to know they're coming, and bad-guy aliens wouldn't want anyone alerted.

Like I said, the logic fails. It's like the movie just needed a quick and dirty wrap-around explanation as an excuse for the suspense. They chose UFOs as the standard crop-circle explanation and even then seemed to only want to grundgingly admit to it. So, enjoy the suspense then fill in your own ending.

Since this has all the earmarks of a cheesey movie, it gets to be rated as such. So, on my Cheesey Scale, this one gets a Feta.

By the way. You want my explanation for crop-circles? Consider: it started in England (for the originals, not the copy-cats), now subtract the whole UFO angle, and consider that those designs looked sort of rune-like (that's magical writing for you Mundanes), and add in that at the time there was an active modern-day group of Gaia worshipers publically operating at the time. Yes, the Druids did it, and they stopped doing it when they got lives and don't want nyone to know because they're viewed as kind of crazy to begin with.

Mystery solved