What's all the winin' about

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2004)

I getting pretty sick of the constant berating this film seems to keep getting. It's a GREAT explosion of a SciFi movie.
People seem to think that the plot is insulting! Well hey... it's about aliens who invade earth. It kinda requires a hefty suspension of disbelief.

Next is the popular whinge that 'the Americans save the planet ....again'. Now I'm not American but I imagine - and correct me if I'm wrong - that the $75,000,000 budget was mostly made up from American money, so hell yeah, they paid for it so let them be the heroes.
Finally, the fact that it borrows all its plotlines from other, earlier more groundbreaking SciFi. Well the movies that lend these themes were at the forefront of the SciFi era. So it was easy to be original.
The other main complaint was President Whitmore's address immdiately previous to the climactic battle, ........ well I have to give you that one. I actually thought that someone had fired up a fondue pot in the row behind me the smell of cheese was so strong, and there were other cheesy moments too, but sometimes a bit of cheese is OK, afterall those bastards were about to wipe us out!
This film was never was meant to to be disected in a post end credits, deep and foreboding intellectual discussion.
Its a go in, sit down, switch off, they beat us, we beat them, while getting blown back into your seat by 2-1/2 hours of explosive never seen before special effects, where in the end all is well in the world again.

Great Stuff
All you Harsh Critics - Chill out!