Amazing Movie

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2005)

This is an AMAZING movie, it's a shame that so many people can't see it. Most people seem to obsess over the little things, such as the camcorder scene, which was done purposely for the view and nothing more. I didn't hear anyone complaining when in Jurassic Park, Spielberg had the T-Rex pen on level ground with the cars, hence the goat being right next to them... and then suddenly there's a 50 foot drop which no T-Rex could EVER scale.
There are so many other things in this movie that make it great. Spielberg hits the mark once again with his directing, and Cruise and Fanning are amazing as the horrible father figure and daughter trying to survive. Just average people running for their lives. They're no hero's, soldiers that single handedly bring down the alien fleet. They're US, they're what we would do. RUN for our lives, hide, be mad, scared.
*Spoilers below!!!! Don't read on if you haven't seen this movie, unless you want to spoil it for yourself!!! You have been warned!!!! Spoilers!!! Spoilers!!!*
The scene with the camcorder is brilliant, an amazing way to SHOW what's happening. Yes, the EMP went off, boohoo! It's not right, get over it! It's such a SMALL part of the story. For all we know, the guy could've put new batteries in it and it started working again. That scene is set to scare the living cr*p out of you. It's the first time you see what's killing people and it's scary.
If anyone has heard of The Rapture, it's a part of the end of the World in the Bible, where people disappear in a flash of light, only to leave their clothes behind. Think about that.
Many people were disappointed because they wanted a movie like ID4, which was pure drivel compared to this. This movie is MUCH more believable than ID4 is. If you don't believe me, how do you find a soldier and a scientist flying into outer space believable compared to regular people running for their lives? This movie makes you think about how insignificant human life is in the grand scale of things, as well as how important it is to other human beings.
Germs kill the aliens while humans can't: human's are insignificant compared to germs.
Ray Ferrier killing Ogilvy to protect his daughter: how important human life is to other human beings. Willing to KILL another human to protect it.
There are SO many things in this movie that make you THINK. Most of the people that don't like this movie are the people that think ID4 is great because all it was was Special FX and war and things blowing up, where as this has them dying by germs and not humans BLOWING THEM TO PIECES! WOOO RAAAHHH!!! Those people have never read the book, nor understand the concept of why the die from germs and not humans, nor the fact that this is a book/movie about why colonization is bad, and how it never works.
*End spoilers! For those of you who read that and haven't seen the movie, shame on you! Shame!!! Just kidding = )*
H.G. Wells wrote this story about the English's colonization of Africa, as a way of saying to England, 'How would YOU like if it someone came into your country and took you over easily cause all of your weapons are useless.' It seriously disappoints me that it only has a rating of 6.8. This movie should be in the top 100 movies on IMDb. I saw it five times in the theaters just because every time I saw it, I saw something new, realized something new about the movie, the story, everything!
WATCH THIS MOVIE and PAY ATTENTION! You'll see all the morals, all the little and big things that make this amazing. There are A LOT of other things that I could talk about, but I've gone on long enough. PLEASE watch this movie with an open mind, read the book maybe, and hopefully you're understand why this movie is so amazing.