The plot, which won't have taken a whole napkin to write down on, is the off-the-shelf one of gung-ho U.S. squaddies getting hunted down by an unstoppable killer, this time an alien machine. There's the Rambo-style hero with mental issues, his black mate who doesn't get to play much of a part beyond reassuring the audience that the hero isn't racist, and of course the speccy one. It's basically Aliens or Predator without the intellect of even the latter, as the purpose of the killer is not even implied. So, a framework just for panic and lashings of explosions. To be fair, it delivers this pretty efficiently. Just don't go expecting that it will ever suggest that the title actually refers to the one again globally invasive USA instead of the killer robot, because any kind of subtlety would really get in the way of the mayhem.
5/10
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