Feel yourself an Iraqi refugee.

Rating: 9/10 (6 July 2005)

I hear that people saying: "Too bad for Spielberg - 'Independence day' was really better". Or: "Steven has money shortage - the FX is very limited". Etc., etc.
I read comments and I'm crying - do the people SO stupid and blind?! To make a sci-fix blockbuster is really easy for Splielberg: he has enough money to hire good FX-team, a superstar hero and a superstar woman for him. Add some sex. Mix and shake well. Serve hot!
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Do you really think that the author of "Schindler's List" will waste his time for ordinary blockbuster?! Wake up! This movie is about war in Iraq or Yugoslavia. But the view is from the beaten side: F-117-like tripods that invulnerable to weak earth weapons. You can't fight you can only run. Run to nowhere. Otherwise you'll be killed. Killed only because you was so unlucky that you was born on Earth. Killed by the enemy that is much stronger. Killed by the machines that everywhere. Yes, you're doomed because the force which is against you is insuperable. And your only weapon is... suicide bomber's belt - remember a grenade pack that Ray uses against a tripod.
This is not an ordinary amusement movie. You should watch it with your brains turned on.
The only Spielberg flaw is that he's throwing pearls before swines.