This is a GREAT movie, if you like sci-fi. Everybody that I talked to that aren't sc-fi fans thought it was junk. On the other hand, if you DO like sci-fi, its a must see. A good movie with a powerful message in it. I never saw the orginal (though I'm diffintly going to now!), so it was just that much better for me. At first I thought it was going to just be another alien invasion movie, but it so isn't.