Ugh...

Rating: 1/10 (30 October 2008)

Well, I'm not a big fan of sci-fi movies. I don't hate them but they are not my favorite type of movies. I watched "I am Sam" at my friends' home a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the play of Dakota Fanning. So I decided to watch her other movies and started with this one. Here is my opinion about this movie:
1- You will feel my disappointment if I tell you that during the whole movie I wanted to shout at the little girl (the very reason that I rented the DVD) to shut her mouth up. Really, What the f*** is wrong with her and her smart-ass a**hole brother? They are either talking like grown-ups or screaming. I cannot remember that I hated a kid's character so much in my life.
2- If you spend several million dollars for a film, you read the script (or hire some smarter people to do it for you) so that you don't make obvious mistakes. When supposedly every electronic device stops working some people are using their cameras taking pictures from aliens only a few seconds before they are vaporized.
3- so many poorly explained laughable scenes. A plane crashes into the building but they don't have to even understand that until next morning. The boy wants to watch the aliens battlefield and he's like "If you love me you let me go!". People get in line to ride a ferry that will sink in a few seconds. Alien's are watching people's photo albums (for a second I thought I was watching scary movie 4!).
4- I didn't get the ending. Did the aliens died of FLU? yeah, I know. they drank people's blood carelessly so they might have got HIV.
The film is so weak that I don't bother writing more about it. Do yourself a favor and instead of watching this movie go and do something less painful.