The ultimate Big Cheese

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 1998)

Okay, this movie is a mixed bag for me. In the theater it was incredible, on video it loses quite a bit. See, once you view it on tape, you can begin to see flaws in the special effects (the fireballs look like oil clouds with some light thrown in) and the gaping holes in the plot stick out like a sore thumb. This movie becomes more and more of a "Photogenic patriots play dodgeball with giant squids" type. The saddest part of the whole ordeal is realizing that this whole movie was intended to be this way. I have no doubt that Roland Emmerich has the potential to write a good script. But if people continue to shower him with riches when he makes hollow firecrackers like this, it might never happen.