missing something

Rating: 3/10 (11 July 2005)

while I am watching a movie, I really don't like it to be reminded I am sitting in a cinema. But sorry Steven, thats the first film from you that reminded me all the time. Even though it has the typical Spielberg sci fi look: great camera movements (I have never seen a driving car orbited by the camera that way) spectacular special effects, light beams through floors and windows and even the usual flashlight is there. But for my taste there are to many moments in which I felt "its just a movie" No car is running, no telephone, no watch, nothing electronically is working but people taking pictures with their digicam ? A plane crashed on the house, absolutely everything is destroyed except the car in front of that building ?... and in all the debris there is even a little pathway to get away with the intact automobile. And the whole scene in the cellar was to long.
But what bothered me most is the missing answer to "Why" Why did a intelligent life form planned an attack, obviously thousands of years ago, on mother earth! It took Bill Pullman as President Whitmore in ID4 just one sentence to explain it all.
The aliens are hostile, mean and I personally would not invite them to dinner, so please give me a reason "Why" !