Baffling

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2003)

I looked forward to seeing this movie. I've liked Mel Gibson movies and my favorite genre is science fiction. Yet the movie was strangely baffling. At times I thought it was too simplistic. At times it seemed intense. I thought the acting was poor. It was unbelievable because of the way the son seemed too much in charge of the father and the apparent stupidity of an alien race that didn't recognize the water situation. And the predictable use of the uncle's baseball background was one more problem. Yet the movie was attention holding.