Huge disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2005)

Rarely have I been so disappointed. And NEVER have I been this disappointed in a Spielberg film. The effects are downright laughable at times, and quite derivative. Some aliens look exactly like something from Alien, some are reminiscent of Close Encounters, etc. They even make a loud horn sound like one in Close Encounters. The story, to the extent there really is one, has no real point, and the ending is not the least bit believable, even for a movie that's not really supposed to be believable. Add to that the fact that there's really no explanation of why things happen as they do, and you have a real mess. This movie is a high tech remake of "Night of the Living Dead" -- lots of random killing, people turning on one another, and then...it's over.