The most lightweight Speilberg film so far.

Rating: 6/10 (13 April 2018)

I fell asleep and missed the middle half, can't really be bothered to re-watch it, it's not very good and probably Spielberg's weakest film (that I'm aware of - bearing in mind I haven't see A.I. for ages). Wasn't really expecting much though as I tried reading the book a while ago and couldn't finish that either, it was so badly written, but i'd hoped they had fixed that with the screenplay. It was slightly better than the book in that it didn't just resort to lists of lazy context-less 80s references, barely held together by a story seemingly written buy a junior school kid.
Films that are 50% CGI, you have to ask how much 'directing' was involved anyway. It's hard to work out who it is aimed at, as it's probably OK for kids and young teenagers as a pretty standard lightweight fantasy film like The Hunger Games / Maze Runner etc, but the 80s references that are in there are not going to mean much to them (I presume)