Weak 50's style alien B-Movie but with decent actors

Rating: 3/10 (9 August 2002)

Definitely a case of the hype exceeding the reality.
Decent acting spoiled by a weak storyline and 50's B-Movie style view of aliens.
Surely, if alines had the technology to get here they would be a bit more intelligent than to be wiped out by baseball bats and glasses of water.
The tv news sequences were really weak, unlike recent movies like Deep Impact that used tv news to add realism.
The director should have decided at the outset whether he wanted the audience to be afraid orlaughinh hysterically. He tried to accomplisg both and ended up creating not too much of either.
Oh well... I enjoyed the movie trailers at the start - especially the one for the new Hannibal movie - Red Dragon.