OK for an action flick

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2005)

We went to see this yesterday and were expecting a great movie based on a friends comments. We were disappointed. Although the movie was fine with the action and effects the story it's self was weak. There was no character development or any real acting above looking scared and screaming. Tom Cruise who I usually like was to my thoughts not a great guy in this film. I guess we were expecting some great hero and a spectacular triumph of the aliens. I did get the ending but many people missed it and had no idea what the real cause of the defeat of the invaders was. Some mistakes were the guy with the cam corder that was working when every thing was zapped and the wife's family in the last scene looking like they just came home from a dinner out! I mean why was everyone else running for their lives and they were home and undamaged? I guess we are just used to having a "hero" in our movies and expected there to be one, that this was not the case just goes to show how predictable we have become. When we asked our friends what they thought was the ending they had a whole different take on it, they believed Cruise was the hero and saved the world! Anyway an OK film but certainly no Oscar runner.