What was Stephen thinking?

Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2005)

Outside of making a ton of money, he passed on Indiana Jones IV for this unsatisfying ET invades earth movie. As bad as "Signs" was, that was a superior movie to this. I suppose if you like spectacular special effects, and things blowing up every 3 seconds; and don't care much for character development you will be more tolerant than me towards this movie. I saw "War of the Worlds" yesterday. This morning TBS ran "Aliens" (1987). The interplay between Ripley & Newt was so much better than between Ray & Rachel. Lastly moving to a spoiler. The scene where the 4 little aliens stalk Ray & Rachel in the basement is nearly identical to Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" scene where the raptors stalk the children in the kitchen. Oh well, at least the new Batman wasn't a bust, and George Romero's latest zombie fest will take the bad taste of this movie out of your mouth.