No suspense - just dense

Rating: 1/10 (10 August 2002)

I can't begin to describe how much I hated this film. The plot was very stupid and Mel's "inner journey" was 100% predictable.
SPOILERS!!! (quibbles: Why was the only "person of color" in the film the bad driver? Why not an Indian-American cop, etc. Did you notice the cop's car started 1 nanosecond after she entered it in one scene? Even before the door closed!)
Since this was a Hollywood film, did anyone wonder if the main characters would make it? I was only wondering if I would make it through this sappy slop. If you want to make a "small film" about human feelings - fine - then drop the alien invasion with reporters choking up on TV! Speaking of which - how many thousand times have we seen people in (bad) films watching reports on TV from the world's capitals of the alien invasion (eg Independence Day). This is always sure sign of a film that has dropped into cliché.
In summary: didn't work as a SciFi (too dumb) and didn't work as human film (*I* wanted to kill these people) - it didn't work.