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Fun, but ultimately soulless imitation of Hollywood sci-fi. Takeshi Kaneshiro is awesome though.

Decent sci-fi/action flick with futuristic elements thrown in for fun. Liked the time travel aspect of it more than the rest of the plot. The acting is fine, it just seemed like something was missing, or there is too much going on to bring it up more levels.

OK, so you don't have a huge budget or any orginal ideas but you still want to make a cool Scifi flick? Answer: Just merge together little bits from lots of popular scifi movies, and make sure you get good actors with nice chemistry. This is in essence what Yamazaki has done. He's literally taken E.T., the Terminator futuristic dystopia time travel thing, only he substitued Independance Day Aliens (and their technology) that look like E.T. for the exterminators, and a cute asian chick for Reece.

A good time travel action story with imaginative twists.

Borrowed concepts and inspired by Transformers, Matrix, Independence Day, E.T., Predator, but I couldn't stop watching. Takeshi Kaneshiro and Yukiko Okamoto were great even with the crappy storyline and somewhat decent action scenes.

Takeshi Kaneshiro is just about the only reason to check this out. Everything else is just blah.

Nothing remarkable, but some fun action and characters.

fast paced but not all that good

A little corny and absent of great action.

Goro Kishitani is hilarious as the over the top villain in this entertaining mashup of various sci fi cliches. It's got aliens and time travel and bullet time gadgets and Anne Suzuki is as cute as a button.

OK, from an objective point of view, this movie's a bit of a mess. But it's a well-made mess, with little or no aftertaste.