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Great potential marred by poor editing, implausibly stupid characters and flawed plotline technicalities.

Watch it for the invaders concept, the ok CGI, the frustrating characters and touristic views of Moscow.

Not enough is explained about the origins of the invaders or the relationship between the opening scene characters.

But there are a lot of assumptions in the narrative about purpose and intent and some interesting concepts about the invaders and how to deal with them.

Some minor victories for the victims in identifying physiological in the biomechanics and chemistry flaws among the invaders and a setup for a potential sequel.

For me, the relative success of a given movie or TV series for that matter, is rooted in it's ability to role me up and elicit feelings of sadness, frustration, anger or whatever.

I have to say "unlocked" did a pretty goodjobof getting me going. The characters are satisfactorily frustrating, disappointing and predictable.

I should have probably watched it in the original Korean language and just read the subtitles but instead I watched it with the overdub which was adequately done albeit with some whiney voices assigned to some of the characters.

The movie will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions in my view, displays of sexism, social disorder, bureaucratic incompetence, strength and weaknesses of personality. Speckled with freak you technology story lines and nasty vengefulness.

Watch it.

The screenplay lacks a coherent back story and instead suggests some bizarre inherent importance of a treasure secreted somewhere. It's unclear why everyone is where they are apart from historical reasons. A lot of focus is on the dwindling water supply which becomes an impalusible rationed commodity yet quite how it would be commercialised by the invaders is unclear. The location is convincing but the ruined nature of everything makes no sense. The cowboys are hackneyed clichés as is the matriarch. Dickinson plays a doe eyed hero and though no chemistry is present between him and Isabella walker, they manage to hold their own albeit a little over the top towards the end. 101 minutes of time could be spent on something far more worthwhile even if you wheeled out a dubbed spaghetti western from the 60s or 70s.