Over-hyped and Terrible...

Rating: 3/10 (27 June 2005)

Just got back from a packed advance screening. This movie is so bad, the crowd laughed, that's right laughed at what were supposed to be scary, sad, and certainly NOT funny.
The ending is so cheesy and such a cop out, people could audibly be heard saying, 'What the hell?'. Most screenings have applause at the end. This one you could hear crickets.
Special effects, yeah they're good. Aliens look kind of cool for the 2 minutes you actually see them. But it's basically two hours of hide and seek and things going boom. Dialouge makes up maybe a total of about 10 minutes, and it's much to dark and "scary" for kids.
But if you want a good 'popcorn' flick you can do so much better. Batman Begins, Star Wars, even Mr. & Mrs. Smith. But please save your money.
This movie will probably do huge opening weekend numbers, but I fully expect a catastrophic dropoff once word gets out how bad it is. It's gonna be a bloodbath with critics as well.
For Spielberg completest only.