Makes Independence Day seem subtle and nuanced.

Rating: 1/10 (16 February 2007)

It's hard to believe that a movie about a bunch of oil drillers taking a spaceship to a comet, with the purpose of blowing it up with a nuclear bomb, could be over the top. But, somehow, it is.
The origin of this movie has to somehow involve a bar bet. Jerry Bruckheimer must have wagered Michael Bay that he couldn't make the most overblown sensationalized movie ever. Well Jerry, you owe Michael this time, because he did it.
If Mr. Bay were to eat like he directs, then he would easily weigh in at 2 tons. There is not a single scene in this movie that doesn't want to be grandiose, not a single line of dialog that wouldn't be improved with the actor taking a giant bite out of a ham sandwich after delivery.
I have actually once been, with a few hundred other people, in a life or death situation. You know what not one person did the entire time? Made a funny or irreverent quip. Can you believe that? Now, I know that this is an action movie, and little one liners are a staple of the action genre. Believe it or not, I love them (two of my all time favorite movies are A Boy and His Dog, and Hell Comes to Frogtown), but his movie exhausted even my patience for them.
Try and watch this, if for no other reason than to see what happens when hundreds of people take leave of there senses, and collaborate on what so obviously had to seem like a steaming turd from day one.
This movie is like Michael Jackson's face. Once it may have seemed like a realistic concept, but somewhere in there, there was need of a person to say "Enough Already".