Certainly not as bad as the reviews go.

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2009)

After having seen enough bashing of this movie, I watched it, after watching it, my impression was "It's good, enjoyable". I had a chance to watch it again few days back and this time I felt that this movie is nearly not as bad as the reviews portray it, it's good people leave aside minor logics.
The story is quite famous so I don't go into it. The movie is shown as a direct account of a person who gets immersed in this chaotic incidents of violence. Aliens attack, and the main concern is to protect the family, his children, and this movie depicts his feelings and thought process. This is kind of a personal or biographical movie, and it does what it means to do- that is to develop characters. Showing some spectacular graphics and gore, this movie scores high in that department.
Some people have been disturbed by lack of small logics in this movie, but when we get engrossed in this movie then it seems trivial. Of course, you may not rate it or see it as compared to some of the Masterpieces Spielberg has created. And considering the combination of Spielberg and Tom Cruise, you would not have expected nothing less than another E.T., but get real pals, we don't get E.T. often, not even from the genius of Spielberg.