A film about human stupidity?... Possible Spiolers ahead

Rating: 1/10 (9 July 2005)

Classic story, classic movie and Spielberg? -should't this be a good movie, no instead The movie in short: OK, we got some cool action mass destruction scenes, with the standard CGI. The rest of the movie is just annoying to watch, We got annoying logic contradictions all over the place, effectively making the movie more funny than scary (laughed out loud when the our stupid annoying main character find his car without a scratch while everything else in the scene is complete destruction) We got Spielberg's trademark: the screaming kid that goes wiiii and aaaaahh every five minutes (was hoping that the kid got killed, when is spielberg gonna make a film without screaming kids?) when the kid is not screaming, people are yelling at each other about stupid things, when people not are yelling, the panic around and want to kill each other, they also gather together and panic in big groups - so the aliens can kill them in one go. The film tries to be "emotional", but it doesn't touch you in any way, the emotional scenes are just plain boring.
Then, after 2 hours of this crap, all aliens die in 2 minutes. End of story? No, we need another crap scene when the Hollywood family is reunited. Luckily all of them survived, and the kid can finally stop screaming and no one has to look panicked more.