For the Intelligent

Rating: 8/10 (16 June 2008)

This film was made, without a doubt, for the scientifically minded. The majority of reviews by people who do not like this film, I would be willing to guess, have an ignorance of science in general.
This film has spectacular cinematography, very good acting, the occasional joke and mildly odd characters; everything you need to make a decent movie. What makes this movie particularly scary, however, is the realistic plot. If you need giant flashy robots destroying the world on screen to make a disaster movie, then maybe your attention span should be examined. This film is made for the intellectuals.
Intellectually, this film is as scary as it gets; of course this exact plot probably wouldn't happen, but it's not a bad guess as a possibility (not a probability) of what could happen. The only thing that bothered me at the end of this film, though, was the lack of explanation as to what caused the disaster in the first place. However, after thinking about it, if the director were to offer an explanation in the film, it would have ruined everything; an explanation would have been too cheesy, fake, and improbable for the situation.
This is genuinely a good movie, but I believe that you need to posses more than a few braincells to enjoy it completely - go watch "War of the Worlds" if you are one with a short attention span.