Rah Rah Duh!

Rating: 4/10 (11 April 2005)

I believe in America--so much so, I joined the Navy Reserves, NYPD(as recruiter/trainer in the Auxiliary Police Section), and other patriotic things(volunteer fire-fighter first in). This film has nothing to do with America, though. Why? Because if air force personnel behaved like Will Smith(who ruins every film he's thrown at us in:Wild Wild West, MIB,etc.), and every ALIEN computer system was as easily virus-ed as the one in this flick, and--oh why bother picking at this sorry excuse for suspension of dis-belief? How about breaking ALL laws of physics? To wit: If you hit something with a nuke, just the concussion wave alone, will blow it pretty badly out of shape--forcefields or not!, If you are in a tunnel and there is a massive wave of fire coming towards you--say your prayers cause fire flows like water--and explosions fly pretty damned at the speed of sound or faster! If you have a lap top that is not plugged into a LAN, you aren't going to be able to infect squat, let alone an alien computer system. And gee-it's awfully convenient that Will Smith---WITH NO TRAINING AT ALL can fly the alien fighter? What about lapses of logic? Duh, there is a fighter acting strangely, and you're the security officer looking at the two enemy beings in it duh--your ship doesn't have anti-intruder devices? you can't use that clamp thing to squash the ship like a egg? Oh yeah-we're supposed to believe the aliens WANT to get blown to bits! they're just so politically correct guilty about scouring everything from innocent planet earth! And the lameness of the characterizations. President decides to fly up to fight? lowly CAPTAIN defies orders and goes off to play chicken? nerd tree hugging bleeding heart liberal is the Savior of Mankind(a Christ reference considering he's Jewish, he's charismatic enough to draw losers and social undesirables to him, and he rides a bike and doesn't eat or drink anything not organic!) I saw this for $5 and I felt ripped off, Rah Rah Duh! The four rating is for the very cool part played by Randy Quaid and Robert Loggia