childish, inconsistent....but great special effects

Rating: 3/10 (23 January 2006)

jvc2....I really appreciated your comments...and agreed.
A few more negative's you didn't mention.
Do you suppose Dakota Fanning might have been totally confused with her role?
She alternated between the insightful & clever sister/daughter, and the idiot that screamed & ran away at the worst possible moment, during the entire movie.
Didn't ANYONE wonder why a father with even a half-a-brain-cell in his body, would, during an alien attack on earth, would run the gauntlet between New York & Boston...just so his daughter & ex-wife could cry on each others shoulders ?
Yup, I must admit I was entertained, but not by the great script/directing/realism.....it was a pathetic comedy.
George Williams