Got it on Blu Ray, and I have to say it's a pretty awesome movie. It's movies like these that remind me not even to bother checking Rotten Tomatoes anymore, as those critics continue to rate movies I love with low ratings and give pure garbage praise and glory. The firefights were pretty intense, the action was pretty hardcore, and there was never a dull moment. It also felt a little bit realer as opposed to Independence Day and District 9, and it made it easy to get over the fact that yes, it is using the cliche alien invasion plot, but it does a good job with it nonetheless. Action and battle freaks like me will get a kick out of this.
I don't know how true this is to the real kinds of tactics, deployment, and strategy the US Marines use (despite hours of Battlefield games and Call of Duty, I definitely do not claim I know a lot about military warfare), but even if it's not, they still made a good movie out of it that felt like you were in the middle of it all.
And Malanu, that's a pretty crazy and interesting coincidence.