Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (10 June 2011)

When I saw the title, "AMBLIN" with a bicycle silhouetted by the moon, as the film started, I said, "Oh, oh." I was right to be apprehensive. The film was filled with dumb, illogical plot devices, non-sequitur scenes, childish, hokey writing and the most absurd plot device I have ever seen in a movie.
Get this:
A high speed train being hauled by a diesel locomotive weighing in excess of 15,000 tons is caused to entirely crash, derail and have its cars spread out about half a mile by a small pick up truck. The crash continues for about ten minutes. Is that stupid enough? No. Guess what? The driver of the small pick up truck survives ... with some injuries. The driver is later murdered by the Air Force, giving no meaningful or logical explanation for the murder.
It's Sci-Fi as seen from the eyes of early teenagers. The dumb things we saw in some of the Spielberg films from years ago, such as a boy hammering away at his breakfast dishes at his breakfast, with a large plastic bat, while his parents ignore him, all intact in this film.
I cannot believe this is a JJ Abrams movie. The film was one "HUH, WHAT?" moment after another. Going further would contain too many spoilers. If you can ignore all the dumb moments, you might enjoy it.