It's always nice to see sci-fi movies (or miniseries in this case) that don't rely on "eye candy" to get your attention. This roughly 13-14 hour miniseries comes packed with an interesting story about alien abductions (basically stuff you may have seen on, say, The X-Files, but with various twists). However there are certain elements like the occasional plot-hole and the not entirely good cast that bring down the whole thing a bit.

This is a high quality Televison mini-series that deals with aliens.Leslie Bohen deserves acclaim for writing a compelling and interesting script for this Mini-Series.All the actors did a very good job in this,however special mention has to go to Dakota Fanning who as Allie gives one of the best performance's of a child that young I've seen.

ok

Not bad.

WTF? Isn't this a miniseries? Whatever. Acting is very poor, and that's what mostly ruins it, but the script is great. Incredible plot.

05 - 06

It doesn't suck, and it has a bigger scope and bigger budget, but this is yet another one of those UFO stories that does hardly anything creative; instead, it recites the litany (gray men from outer space are visiting our planet in flying saucers, the government knows all about it but is covering it up, the aliens are benevolent despite all those scary abductions of people, etc.) because they're kowtowing to all the nutcases who are the core market for this stuff

This is bad storytelling.

I remember liking the story...

Very good ufo vs government series (10 pts).