Tiresome and frustrating

Rating: Null/10 (1 January 2016)

This was a good idea ruined by a dreadful script and clichéd performances and production. I must award Will Smith, 5 "John Waynes" for gung ho acting with Harry Connick a close runner up. This movie is over schmaltzed to a degree that had me install a bucket by my side just in case. Randy Quaid must cringe at his over the top drunk "...hello boys, I'm Baa-aack!" Whoever came up with the sound effect for the alien fighters needs to stop visiting the zoo for his inspiration. The Neeeeaaaww scream of the passing enemy fighters was cringe making in its corniness. Add to that the cigar symbolism, wielded by Smith and Connick and used as a phallic emblem of masculine power was also cringe making. Its just an over the top unbelievable film I don't need to see more than once a decade and then only to remind me how awful it was!