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A young couple, Jarrod and Elaine, travel to LA for their friend Terry's birthday party at his penthouse apartment. After the wild party, everyone goes to sleep it off... only to be awoken by mysterious blue lights that fall from the sky into the city. As people are drawn to the lights in a twisted trance, they are snatched by the light, never to be seen again.

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* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: The abduction of the rest of the population of Los Angeles is merely a backdrop for the drama of a very small group of people and their tragedies.

* [[Alien Abduction]]: Stare into the pretty lights and a few seconds later you're being pulled into the ship.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: but an interestingly inverted one. It looks like humanity, and our protagonists, are down for the count, but there is a [[Hope Spot]] in the final scene, just as we fade to black and the credits roll. Not a [[Bolivian Army Cliffhanger]], because the protagonists are left safer than they were just one minute before the ending.

* [[Cool Ship]]: The alien spacecraft are huge, complicated masses of metallic spines, panels and antenna, and their blue lights do look pretty cool. [[Hypnotic Eyes|Really... really cool....]]

* [[Death By Pragmatism]]: {{spoiler|Oliver}}. He's the most reasonable of the group, to a point, but it's his insistence on staying hunkered down in the building that ultimately spells his doom. Of course, others don't fare much better...

* [[Death by Sex]]: Played straight. {{spoiler|Donald Faison}}'s character is cheating on his girlfriend and gets killed. So does the girl he's cheating with.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Almost literally. Jarrod starts off with a cinderblock but then goes to fisticuffs. The alien breaks his leg during the sequence, leading to a non limb-specific [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]].

* [[Doing It for the Art]]:

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: The aliens can recover from anything short of having their brains physically torn out, and even that might not stop them if they can grab a nearby human.

* [[Hellish Copter]]: A Blackhawk is taken down by [[Combat Tentacles]].

* [[Hope Spot]]:

** As it turns out, nuking the alien ship really worked! {{spoiler|Until it starts repairing itself.}}

** Played with ''and'' subverted, as whenever the main group tries to have a bit of this, they always seemed to get screwed either way. {{spoiler|Finally played straight on the ending.}}

* [[It Got Worse]]: It does nothing ''but'' get worse, no matter how hard they try.

* [[I Will Only Slow You Down]]: {{spoiler|Jarrod}} tries this with {{spoiler|Elaine}}, since he can barely move. She chooses to die with him instead by looking into the light. [[It Got Worse|Only they don't die.]]

* [[Light Is Not Good]]:

** And blue light on top of that, to subvert [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]].

* [[Living Ship]]: [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/11/skyline/?pid=1929&viewall=true According to] [[Word of God]], "Every single one is a different unique creature with its own DNA."

* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Looking directly at the pretty blue lights induces this. {{spoiler|Jarrod}} also gets them when he gets pissed off later in the movie.

* [[No Ending]]: The film fades out mid-scene.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: This happens so often in films that it's not funny, but rooftop doors are supposed to have a one-way lock. They lock on the inside of the building to keep people from going out on the roof (and jumping), but they ''do not lock on the outside so no one who is already out of the roof gets locked out'' in cold/rain (and aliens, by extension).

* [[Nuclear Physics Goof]]: Oliver was looking at a nuclear explosion ''through a telescope''. You're not supposed to look at the sun through a telescope, certainly not a nuclear explosion. That eye should be at the very least temporarily blinded - or more realistically - permanently.

* [[Nuke'Em]]: The US military attempts to nuke an alien ship. It works, but it quickly starts repairing itself, and eventually appears as good as new.