a enjoyable film with those emergency elements...

Rating: 8/10 (1 May 2007)

OK, first of all let me start by saying that the ending of this film is pretty much the only thing that lacked in this film, but everything else was damn great.
I knew this was another 'independence day' film but i felt that it avoided that whole cliché of seeing the rest of the world smash into smitherines that most disaster flicks always have (how many times do we see the statue of liberty being destroyed)? Instead, this film dealt with the struggle of a father attempting to protect his children. I really liked the zoom in and out shots when Tom Cruise drives his kids to their mother's house, with Dakota Fanning screaming her little puny head off. The film deals with the pain of uncertainty, and the feeling you get really sinks into your skin.
But, yes the ending! So clichéd, and so unbelievable that Boston isn destroyed and that all the family is alive...
That simply is not how real life works...but then, not everyone wants that in cinema.