great fun if minus realism

Rating: 8/10 (10 December 2000)

This was one of my favorite movies of the year. It had lots of great effects and the action sequences are great. Will Smith was his usual self funny and entertaining. While the realism may be a little hard to take, (spoilers) laptops compatible with alien technology a virus drummed up in a couple days that can disable the ships etc. It wasn't really meant to be taken as an extremely scientifically accurate movie. Just a fun alien invasion movie where humanity has to come together and fight off the aggressors, a little over-used subject maybe but what isn't these days? At any rate this rehash was pulled off very well. One thing I would like to say though is to all those posting complaints about the Americans always find the answer. This is a movie about Americans made for Americans so why would they go all that way and then have say, to pull a country out of the hat, the British win it for them? (no slight to the British intended at all in that) That would be stupid! I'm not an expert on foreign films but I doubt there are a lot of British films that show German's winning it or French films that have Spaniards winning so I think these "America always seems to do it" arguments are rather unfair, especially for a film such as this one which is a work of total fiction.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"