Interesting but what the heck?

Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2005)

This has nothing but spoilers: A lot of this film doesn't make sense but it was entertaining? What were all those red root/vein like things for? Why did aliens fry a lot of humans only to seem to need them as some kind of fuel later? How did the son make it through the intense conflagration? Why are the houses in Boston unharmed? What was the purpose of attacking earth anyway? Why would aliens bent on world conquest be wasting time on an a abandoned farm house, more than once? A lot of the movie is implausible, however it does have some great imagery. I liked the approach of taking the refugee approach which is not as exciting at say the "Independence Day" approach of military it was pretty interesting to see what happens to ordinary people. How people react during a crisis? What are the issues to face? Given our world and war a lot of what was explored was indeed relevant to basically refugees in war against a hostile, exterminating force. For this I gave the movie a favorable review.