Boring

Rating: 4/10 (29 April 2006)

It starts of pretty decent, but from there on it's mostly just a big YAWN! I mean seriously, it's a way too uninteresting plot to fill over 2 hours of film. Great effects just isn't enough.
One part in particular that really stands out as unnecessary long and just plain annoying is in the middle of the film when the main characters are captured in their bus-like vehicle. I don't think there's anyone on the planet who can't figure out they're all gonna make it (except for the guy who conveniently comes to their rescue) and yet Spielberg's gotta milk every tiny little second he can out of that single scene, delaying it several minutes, and for what? To achieve a state of suspense...well mission accomplished...not! *sigh*
Perhaps this movie where to gain if he had shortened it down, but it still wouldn't have been great, and perhaps not even good, but at least more acceptable. While the first movie was quite original and entertaining this one lacks in almost every aspect of film making. There are so many predictable elements and boring characters that it's just not interesting to watch. I actually mostly saw the whole thing, to have seen it and now I feel I could easily live without that experience. To me this is just a cheap trick to milk out more money from an originally great concept. I haven't seen the sequel to this one, and don't think I will either.
At last I would just like to say that I'm usually not this pessimistic, and I don't aspire to be, but this is just my take on the film. I honestly didn't appreciate it and just wanted to share my view. If people like it and think of it as underrated, well then they're of course entitled to think so, I just don't understand how they can, but that's my problem :D