Attack Of The Engrams

Rating: 1/10 (3 February 2006)

You may have heard that Cruise is a Dianetics proponent...heck, he could be directing the whole Church of Scientology for all we outsiders really know...this year's intro packet is personally signed by Cruise AND Holmes.
I think he's converted Spielberg...if you notice, this is just a reiteration of all the previous cinematic traumas ('Engrams', in the argot of Dianetics) he's inflicted on us: The Close Encounters light show, the roving eye of the alien hunter (the Jurassic Park raptors), the holocaust on humanity (Schindler's List), etc., etc. This must be the 'audit' of the Engrams...
Note also Robbins and Freeman...theirs are not merely convenient cameo appearances. Robbins is digging a hole, and Freeman is narrating because Spielberg wanted to make his own "Shawshank Redemption"...he has been deeply, deeply envious of the most comic book-ish storyboard story telling of all time, and he will suffer no rivals! (he makes sure the Shawshank escapee is killed off).
Seriously, folks, the 9/11 motif of this movie is lower than low, even for such shameless hacks. Unspeakable ugliness, this.