Wow! Such a good movie.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Now don,t get me wrong I like a good adventure as much as the next person,aliens prophecies,conspiracies etc. so the story line was OK.BUT everything else PUHLEASE!Only 3 actors had English accents,wrong rank insignia,mountains on Salisbury Plain (not the last time I went},a gigantic English primary school built like no others, complete with basket ball hall!,all vehicles left hand drive including a Humvee.Stonehenge obviously computer generated with wrong grass(north American grass is different) and as you say over there,much,much more but I can,t go on.It must have cost a couple of million dollars spoiled by a few cents.Sorry one last thing.A US general turns up, takes charge on British soil,at one of our most precious monuments and a World Heritage Site to boot,I don,t think so.

The most amazing thing happened: I sat this movie entirely out and in a weird way I found it (believe it or not!) to some minor degree actually entertaining. How come? Well, definitely not on account of the script, which was terrible. Maybe the premise was kind of original, but that seems easy when someone appears to have said: let's concoct the craziest, most unrealistic and most preposterous sci-fi-story ever! The script does its utmost (and succeeds brilliantly) in making the premise NOT work: not only the basic story-line, but all the goings-on are totally surreal and illogical. An (extra-terrestrial?) device lies dormant for billions of years in or under the Stonehenge-monument to suddenly get activated, not for reasons of its own, but because some crazy scientist has found an ancient artifact key. By applying this key on a newly discovered ancient pyramid in Maine, USA (?!?), it sets-off a series of supersonic beams or waves that connect ancient pyramids all over the world and blows them up and start the count-down for a total destruction of mankind. Why, what kind of aliens or ancient civilizations, when?? We never find out. Why the crazy scientist should want to precipitate the destruction of the earth stays in the dark, apart from some ramblings about "a new dawn for a new mankind". Oh really? on a totally annihilated planet?!? Some big shot from the government is brought in to deal with the matter and he disdainfully whisks away every explanation that the present scientists venture to give. Well, you can hardly blame him, the scientists in residence (two timid and wide-eyed ladies and one guy who in the end turns out to be a double-crossing wimp) are forever exchanging totally incomprehensible scientific mumbo-jumbo while obsessively watching silly wave-graphics on their monitors. Then the army is brought in and the commander in charge decides to nuke the place. Yeah, sure, that must be the safest thing to do: throw an atomic bomb on this totally unprecedented and unpredictable science- baffling device!! It's only through the efforts of our hero, a misunderstood scientist who for some unfathomable reason seems the one person who knows exactly what is going on, that the world is saved. With (equally unfathomable) deduction he knows that there is another artifact key that can stop the whole destruction. Huh?? This key conveniently lies exhibited in some archaeological museum in the US. The poor guy, who had just rushed from the US to Stonehenge, Great-Britain, now has to rush back to the States, to steal the key (surviving a gunfight in the process) and then back again to Great-Britain, all this with supersonic speed within the flick of a few hours time while the count-down ticks away the fate of the earth. With his dying breath he stops the destruction in the utter last second. Apart from what I described just now, nothing else remotely exciting happens. Of course everyone is very busy acting flabbergasted by the strange happenings at Stonehenge, and a count-down clock also gives some sense of urgency, but that's really about it. We don't see any aliens, the people that are killed by the radiation are puffed away to nothingness within a second and the global catastrophes are just hinted-at by way of radio and television news-flashes. The special effects (if I may call them thus) are appallingly simple and cheap-looking. The whole Stonehenge area is CGI and looks faker than fake, and when the colossal monoliths begin to move, plowing through the ground as fast as a sharp knife cuts through a pizza, it's so ludicrous that you really cannot believe anyone taking this seriously. The same with the visuals of the Yucatan-, Bali- and Gizeh-pyramids collapsing and exploding: as if they used postcard-images, put a match to it and filmed the result. So the question remains: why did I enjoy myself anyway? For one part it was the pretty fast pace of the movie, which sort of kept you on your toes. And there was this eerie part of me that was compelled to find out with what crazy ending they would come up. But my enjoyment was mainly due to the acting, which was surprisingly good. Misha Collins, who we all know so well as the imperturbable Castiel in the Supernatural series, plays the misunderstood scientist in a very Castiel kind of way, which is rather subdued and (subtly) tongue-in-cheek, and here this works like charm. Torri Higginson is okay, albeit rather unobtrusive, as the female scientist. But the biggest asset is Peter Wingfield. He has an impressive screen-presence and acts with natural ease and authority, and although he must have thought this whole project as way below (his) par, he delivers a very serious and convincing characterization, and it all the more makes you wonder why he (like Misha Collins) went along with this preposterous movie in the first place.

Yes, there was action, and no it wasn't well thought out. OK, that covers the review... (read the other reviews for details) NOW... My issue with this movie is the use of the actors as targets in a shooting gallery. OK, so where is it written that all bad guys have guns (even automatic weapons in England where a sharpened screwdriver is considered a deadly weapon) -BUT- All the good guys NEVER have guns. No, it doesn't matter if they are being shot at. Good guys ALWAYS run past every single gun, and try endlessly to "talk down" the bad guys with guns. This insane plot rule drives me crazy. In the movie, despite the good guys KNOWING they are going after "Terrorists...with guns", they just do not pick up a weapon... not even a sharpened stick. Naturally this results in the good guys ALWAYS getting shot, sometimes over and over again. Yet they never willingly pick up a gun. Same kind of thinking that results in schools, shopping centers and public places of all kinds with "no carry" gun policies being turned into favored terrorist shooting ranges. Perhaps i'm being too harsh, after all it IS supposed to be England after all, with it's "no defending yourself under any circumstances" attitudes,policies and laws. Still, the characters in this movie drop like flies with varying shocked expressions on their faces. After all, everyone knows the best way to deal with terrorists is to talk meaningfully to them. Right? Go ahead, try that, you just may say something memorable that will be remembered forever... on your gravestone.

I watched this because I had run out of things to watch and it had a funny review on another site. It actually has a fairly good story line, if only there was more money for it, it would have been good.One thing that is a little confusing is that they are at Stonehenge, which actually does not look like Stonehenge and they are meant to be in England but all the English scientists and the English army are all have American accents and have American syntax. But what confused me is that occasionally they were drinking tea - so they must have been English. But then they were drinking tea from glass mugs, so maybe they weren't.I am confused.It is well worth a watch!