Bad Movie by Spielberg

Rating: 4/10 (23 October 2008)

The movie is about this guy who has two kids and works at a shipping dock. His kids come to stay with him at his small Boston row home. While his kids are staying with him a storm develops over the city. I really wanted to like this movie. I really did. But I found myself wanting to choke out the characters by the end of the film. Steven Spielberg's homage to the Orson Welles radio hoax and George Pal B movie is careless at best. The only truly good thing about this movie was the special effects. The Aliens that Spielberg created were indescribably terrifying; my children were scared at the mere sight of them. The sounds coming out of the alien horn was also eerie In a way that it was relentlessly booming in my mind for days after.
First, the casting was imprudent, especially Dakota Fanning. I find it very had to believe that Tom Cruise is a dock worker from New Jersey, although the marriage problems were believable. The movie made me disgruntled. Steven could have done so much better with this movie. The potential it had in being an award winning movie was astounding. Honestly, I wanted to slap everyone who took part in making this in the face.