Excellent film

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2006)

OK the premise is yes,earth has to defend itself from the harboring aliens coming to injest everything on the planet.But the one thing about the story,is that one Randy quaids role was a fighter pilot,if you remember the line from the major who was turtoring the would be pilots.Your about to get a crash course in modern avionics.For quaids role he did fly a jet in NAM not Korea,and he did hold a pilots license in a jet so using a modern jet would be but not difficult at best to fly.As for the virus the aliens didn't know if their technology would be superior,i am guessing they felt real confident about taking the earth with no problem,not realizing that the scout ship found at area 51 was from the fifties,so with lacking news from the scout,about technology they thought no problems taking over.The story and characters were excellent,a huge cast of veterans and new faces which made the film very desirable.I for one loved the special effects,and you have to remember some of those takes could only be done once,which is pressure on the film makers of emmerich and devlin.They did win some good awards for the results of plot and special effects,which made some ground breaking openings in other films.I hope emmerich and devlin will come to the audience with a new story and kick butt effects,as for godzilla,not bad i thought doing the story over again was a bit cheesy,but the effects took my breath away.Great work roland bring us some more.