Oh. My. Gawd.

Rating: 1/10 (27 July 2005)

Well not too much to add beyond all that's been said here already, except:
1) once again, Spielberg explores family dysfunction and parent abandonment issues, this time shoehorning it into an apocalyptic action movie.
2) alien machines that should be busy destroying world population centers instead choose to chase Tom Cruise through New Jersey...down side streets, to his ex-wife's house, on a ferryboat, in his minivan. we're talking about some seriously inefficient aliens!
3) the screaming....god, the screaming.
I signed up on IMDb for the sole purpose of posting this, so that others may avoid the suffering. It's THAT bad!