Check your brain at the door

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 1999)

There are some movies that you know ahead of time that you'll just need to check your brain at the door and enjoy. This is one of those. However, even escapist fantasy should be able to pull you in, to make you forget it's a movie, to make you want it to be real--and this one had way too many obvious problems to fit the bill. Oh, sure, it's fun, but when you hear your brain saying, "That's really stupid," every ten minutes, it's hard to suspend belief and enjoy the escape. This movie made absolutely no attempt to incorporate anything even remotely resembling scientific fact into it, with the result being that it was an unwitting spoof. Kinda like "Mars Attacks" played straight. Deep Impact, altho not perfect (and a completely different slant), was a much better movie.