Appalling in every respect

Rating: 1/10 (29 July 2005)

Nothing about this dreadful film offers compensation for sitting through what seems like an eternity while watching it. The effects are fine, OK, but absolutely nothing else can possibly be recommended it to anyone with more than a single active brain cell. Avoid this rubbish! The characters are the most clichéd of clichés and no viewer will care one jot about them. No-one involved takes it seriously and hamming saves the day in more than one respect. There have been many comments concerning the saving of the world by the USA - again! - but that is not important. What is important is that a reasonable and possibly exciting storyline has been smothered at birth by incompetent translation. All I could hope for was victory for the aliens then we would surely never have to sit through this Hollywood garbage again.