Bigger isn't necessarily better!

Rating: Null/10 (23 June 2002)

Despite Roland Emmerich's open cheque book and upmarket CGI fx, this scifi outing cannot hold a candle to the likes of DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL or even FORBIDDEN PLANET....especially FORBIDDEN PLANET!!!!!
Nevertheless, people queued up to see this film to see the alien threat repulsed, the spectacle of 20 kilometer ships hovering over the cities and megabuck explosions. (I wonder if ANY viewer twigged to the similarities with "V" which held TV audiences spellbound in the 80's) This flick is about entertainment - and the destruction of the Empire State building was cool stuff you have to admit. Anyone looking for character development or meaningful dialog is best advised looking elsewhere. Once again the spectre of American patriotism seems to irritate so many people. In such an event, who would the world be LOOKING to save them? Zimbabwe?
Ok Pullman makes a wimpy President and Goldblum is an irritating person. True also, the concept of wiping out an entire alien fleet which has just flown God-knows how many billions of miles in a space ship several hundred miles in length with a mid eighties DOS virus is hyterical, but GUYS, just chill out and take it for what it is - expensive non-discriminatory entertainment.