Poor ending betrays basically good movie

Rating: 7/10 (30 March 2003)

Lets do this in reverse order. The ending is laughable. It betrays the whole movie. And the script - The plot holes are amazing. Do people really jump to such implausible conclusions so easily. The boy gets a book (out of the millions of different books available about UFOs - all with different ideas about aliens - and this book is totally 100% accurate about the aliens plans). Mel Gibson seems to have lost a little of his edge with this film (which is a shame, as the majority of the budget must have gone on his salary rather than the script) I may be persuaded to watch it again, if it comes on to cable in a couple of years time, otherwise this is one to miss