Not going to be "ET2"...

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2011)

I saw it today with my 11 year old son. He thought it was just-OK-good, probably because in the usual Speilbergy way, the smartest people in the film are 11 year old kids... I thought the story was poor, the action just "OK", and the effects pretty good.
The story never really explains why the AF needed to move this super alien (by rail), how a small pickup can derail a huge locomotive, what they could have stored the alien in to begin with as he certainly does not have a problem ripping through metal...
The alien seen eating a fellow citizen for dinner and five minutes later the little kids try to make the thing sympathetic. Kind of a weird transition for me.
The killing of the bad military dude occurs approximately 3/4ths of the way through the movie, so you have that.
The whole initial tension of the movie is set by the father of the hero-kid hating the hero-girl's dad because he (dad of hero girl) called in sick to work, the mother of hero-kid gets horribly killed at work, working the girls dads shift and everyone somehow thinks it's the dudes fault, he even gets arrested for coming to the wake... And... Yeah it's hard to follow or even understand.
Didn't like the movie, my son only "liked" it.