“Extinction” (** out of four) was a well-made but obvious, derivative Netflix sci/fi thriller about a father (Michael Pena) who has frightening visions of the future which soon become a reality as Earth is under attack and it’s apocalypse now and him and his wife and daughter (Lizzy Kaplan and Lilly Aspell) have to fight for safety against aliens and (naturally) a military government coverup. Pena and Kaplan do what they can with a predictable script which reheats old plot points from “Skyline”, “Cloverfield”, “Independence Day”, and just about every other sci/fi movie over the last two decades. Striking cinematography by Pedro Luque is a definite plus.

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