I Want My Money Back

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2005)

OK - Spielberg - definitely a great director - but he phoned this one in. He had to have. No way this malarkey is his hand's on work.
No characters to care about - plot holes you could drive a Buick through - and no story.
Careful - POTENTIAL SPOILER You're telling me that these aliens are smart enough to travel lights years to get here - but are not smart enough to stop at a darn drug store along the way.
They travel all that way - but send no advance party to see if they can survive here? The kid runs into a wall of fire and ends up............ in Boston?? Com'on. Where is the gifted storyteller who brought us JAWS. The director with the eye for detail who crafted SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.
If you see him - tell him this.
It used to be "If you film it they will come" No more.