The world's under alien attack, and three youngsters who were left behind at a summer camp - nerd with a heart of gold Alex (Jack Gore), somewhat creepy and mysterious ZhenZhen (Miya Cech), who of course has a heart of gold, and rich show-off Dariush (Benjamin Flores jr), who has to learn yet that he actually has a heart of gold - and fugitive from juvenile prison with a heart of gold Gabriel (Alessio Scalzotto) stumble upon an escape pod from the ISS and in it an astronaut (Lynn Collins) that gives them the key to stop the aliens from winning the war, just before she's killed by one of the aliens, who then takes after our heroes - but of course they manage to outrun and outsmart it, but the alien's ability to regenerate makes it hard to kill the creature. However, thanks to being a nerd, Alex knows exactly where to take the key, to a gouvernment lab in Pasadena - which is 70 miles away, and all our teens have is bikes. So basically, what they decide is to try to somehow make it to the next town to find some grown-ups to handle the situation properly. But the next town is in worse shape than they could have expected, and when they hand the key over to some army men, the army men are promptly attacked and annihilated, leaving it to our kid to save the world on their own. Of course they eventually make it to Pasadena and the lab to deliver the key to, but that lab is abandoned and in ruins. So our kids must use their wits and each overcome their specific fear to beat the aliens for all humankind ...

This movie is actually better than it should be. Basically it's one of these kid-centric movies that borrows heavily from 1980s fare, from The Goonies to Breakfast Club (and it's not at all unlike Stranger Things there), and it really doesn't even try to create original characters, just uses the usual stereotypes, and the film is filled with genre-typical situations with very little attempts at originality. What saves the movie though is a very dynamic and light-footed directorial effort that keeps the story moving, so while watching, one's actually well-entertained, even by a very generic storyline. Plus, the kids are actually pretty good in that one, giving their characters more depth than the script might suggest.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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