No one involved in this film, cared, and it showed.

Rating: 3/10 (26 November 2008)

This film was just plan awful. The actors were selected from a bin of dime a dozen Hollywood pretenders with formula characters.... Goldblum with his irritating one trick pony style of acting,... Will Smith introduces his regular guy super hero persona that he has regurgitated in every movie since,..(guys, acting means being a different person each movie). In general i got little impression of a sense of urgency or astonishment from the Hollywood pretenders, that ALIENS ARE INVADING!.
It was impossible to overlook the countless obvious logical problems this movie had,... how did Smith know where to find his wife,... why did they have to get idiot volunteers to fight the aliens (the entire air force was gone, including retirees?),.. why didn't the missiles have the same explosive power each time as the final one,... how do you 'upload' a computer virus to an alien system without knowing their technology or protocol.
There were just too many dumb script decisions,... Goldblum gets drunk and acts out because he's upset that fighting the aliens with Nuclear Weapons will hurt the environment(!), ...astoundingly idiotic,... The "president" decides to be a hero too, wow, there are no words to express how asinine that idea was,... The aliens have the technology to fly millions of light years in city sized ships yet they have to rely on our relatively archaic satellite systems in order to communicate with each other. I could go on and on and on.
The fact that the entire premise or core idea of the movie was ridiculous, is no justification in glossing over obvious gaps in sense. Sci-fi movies are suppose to take us into fantasy, but not into stupidity. This movie was bad because not enough mental effort was put into it, quite typical of Hollywood. The sad truth is, that if this movie had been computer animated, say by Pixar, it would have been far more realistic and believable.