fooled me...

Rating: 3/10 (3 December 1998)

I wrote off Hollywood films years ago, but was lured into giving them one more try by the ads for this film. What I saw pretty much covered all of the things I don't like about Hollywood (same story being retold again and again and again, shameless, blatant manipulation of (some members of) the audience, presenting impossible problems with unbelievable solutions...). I can't add much to the other negative comments that have already been written about this film except to point out another plot problem: beings who were thousands of years more advanced than we are probably would've dealt successfully with computer viruses before, not to mention have had components more advanced than/incompatible with ours... Notice the difference between ID4 and War of the Worlds where human power never did stop the martians.