One of most stupid movies I have ever seen

Rating: 1/10 (24 May 2008)

Again, Hollywood insults the intelligence of the cash carrying public.
This is a story of and alien invasion - well, its the story of a small town family in the midst of an alien invasion.
Its plays out with a priest who loses his faith, a family that loses its mother, and of course, all that is nicely resolved as the story plays out through the alien invasion.
The aliens in this film are somewhat mysterious, possessing a multitude of spacecraft, lurking around in the dark, making crop circles, and without really being given much treatment except as a source of menacing and scary noises. Oh yeah, poison gas can come out of a thing on their wrists, whose only function seems to be threatening children.
Having sat all the way through this film, wondering what its all about, we find that the aliens really are invading the earth, and soon after that we find out that this story will resolve by a secret alien vulnerability.
Whats the secret alien vulnerability? They melt when they come into contact with water. A little girl, who has been stashing glasses of water around the house throughout the whole film, throws one on an alien and it melts. Boom Boom.
At this point, the sheer intellectual laziness of this film washes over me, filling me rage. $10 and this is the best you can offer me.
You can picture the writers huddle - "ok, now, how do we get rid of the alien menace before the film end? I know, they are vulnerable to ...., {swigging from a bottle of Perrier}, um, WATER!. Oh fantastic, you are a genius, lets put that in the script and we can all go home now." So lets see here - an alien civilization travels between the stars to invade the earth, a planet 70% covered by water, and where almost no place is untouched by rain, and they forget to wear the simple protection that something like a raincoat might offer, not to mention any other protective measures their star-traveling civilization might have come up with for when they encounter this most common of solvents.
Hollywood writers, I know its just a plot device, but fer Christ's sake, if you cant come up with something better than this, you should probably go and find another job. It really wouldn't take much more thought - you could pick any common household substance to use, petrol, ammonia, whatever, and it would be more credible, and I wouldn't feel like I was just slimed as I leave the film.