Only one to detest this movie?

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2001)

I must stand out as the only person who detested this movie. I found the 'in your face' sentimentality intollerable in the extreme - it was emotional manipulation of the most blatant kind. I was irritated also by the assumption that aliens will be benign and harmless - the reality may be quite different as Independence Day shows. I felt the authorities were quite correct to take the precautions they did. While our record on pollution is far from brilliant, who knows what the aliens may be carrying? When I saw this movie in 1982 (in a packed house - rare in Britain at the time) I felt so different to those around me that I wondered if I were an alien!