Very very bad

Rating: 1/10 (31 May 2007)

very patriotic, very overrated, very flat.
here again we are attacked by aliens and they simply want to kill us this time:

am i the only one who noticed that the destruction beam they used was quite a weak weapon in relation to what we could use? drop one of the bigger a-bombs and you have at least 100 times more destruction. and the rocket would be definitely smaller than the giant ship which fired the beam.

why making an alien movie and not even get some interesting aliens inside? i mean, the one they showed ... are they serious about this?

i know that the dialogue isn't considered the important part of an action movie, but this one could be way better if they all just didn't talk at all.

was it really necessary to put the president in a fighting jet ... this was definitely the worst part of the movie. well, this + his speech

so imagine you are those aliens, just want to clean a planet so you can get the resources out:

a biological weapon would be way more effective, cheaper and less dangerous for you. + it wouldn't blast resources you maybe could use.

why would you ever bother to wait for a count down? you loose the surprise-bonus. since you aren't doing this for the first time you should have some experience ...

wouldn't attacking military targets make more sense? or at least attacking military targets and the big cities?

where is the point of making the computer of the mother ship responsible for the shields of all ships? it is slower and it is not very reliable

the computer doesn't necessarily need a virus to get broken ... ask a network administrator. you will have backups you can activate quickly at least. and what would happen if a opponent manages to destroy the mother ship anyway?

since you are secure behind your shield where is the point of sending the interceptors? is this seriously the best interceptor you have? a parachute can get him down, so ... (and as if this is not bad enough, will smith punches the alien in the face and says: "welcome to earth" ... second worst moment in the movie)

i made this point before in signs, but what about just bullying the earthlings to give you all you want ... you must not even work than

not sure what those resources they wanted were but there are a lot of unpopulated planets, where you can find a lot of resources to ...

seriously, how long did it take the ships to get to all the cities they should destroy ... if they travel at that speed, how much time were they traveling from the last planet they destroyed?

from the human side:

the army would have tried a shot even before knowing what the aliens want - they work this way - shot first, ask later

such big ships would not have been able to sneak the earth without being noticed

with the arrival of the aliens the American president would have been in the deepest bunker his security people can find

no one would even let the president get in a fighting jet and attack the aliens. since he is the supreme commander it would even be irresponsible of him to do this. his job is to command and coordinate the army efforts, not to do things which can be done by trained specialists (not wanting to implicate that a president actually is an useful supreme commander ...)

just imagine the Russians saying: "the Americans have found a way to fight back -- yuppie" - lol. the Russians and the US never trusted each other and i don't think that the end of the world would have even a minimal chance to change this

and the happy end:

ohh, come one, this one was so cheap it merely gets rang 3 in the worst moments list: the apple virus (with helpful "uploading virus" message) wrecks the entire fighting force of the aliens, after of course our heroes manage to fly an alien interceptor for the very first time (which moves way quicker when they fly it as when the aliens do ... the aliens must do something wrong ...) and sneak in the mother ship (funny, try to land on a military airbase and they will shot you down without the right codes)