Thinks I didn't like

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2006)

The movie was over all enjoyable to me, though this can't be marked as extra-ordinary. The start was good. I think, most of the people who like science fiction would like it. But I would like to note the things I didn't like. I didn't like two things about this movie. First of all, I think a costly actor like Tom cruise was not necessary for a simple science fiction. There was no good role of him except escaping with others. I think big budget movies doesn't necessitate 'big budget' actors. Secondly, though the making was good and costly, some things appeared cheap to me. There was an invasion by aliens, they wanted to exterminate man kind from earth. For this purpose they sent huge machines in huge number through lightning, that penetrate through ground, stayed buried for a while, and then comes out with massive destruction to the surface. The machines can destroy any object in fraction of a second by its powerful ray. Several human bodies can be practically 'burst out' in a second. If extermination is the purpose, it can be done merely by destroying the human bodies. Then why sucking the blood of individual human being, one by one, and spraying it around? It appeared lunatic, time and energy consuming. In 'Matrix' we saw human bodies used for energy production that was used for running the machines. But nothing like that was explored in this movie. When the huge (in size and number) machines created by the aliens can destroy several objects in a second, why following a slow way of torturous kill, why even catching the living human beings one by one and keeping them in cages, which ultimately led to the destruction of the machine itself. one thing was not clear to me was the bloody weeds that grew from the sprayed blood, what was the use of it. It was also not also clear, how all the machines were deactivated. Tom cruise destroyed one, but on his way to his ex-wife, found many machines to be dismantled. Probably the machines or the aliens running the machines are so united or by any means connected to each other that destruction of one led to destruction of all of its nature. But it was not clarified.