Horrible continuity errors

Rating: 4/10 (22 July 2005)

They've messed with H.G. Wells, and have thus messed with the best. I, for one, am incredibly surprised Spielberg signed on to a project with this many continuity errors.
1) The EMP knocks out every electronic device, from car ignitions to watches, yet a bystander is recording it all ON VIDEO CAMERA! Also, the sink works when Ray washes all the people dust off of him? Hmm, water pumps and the mainframe for the water system would be COMPUTERIZED. And when he and Rachel finally arrive in Boston, the city lays in ruins, yet his ex-wife and her parents have had showers recently? 2) These aliens are advanced enough to bury machines ahead of 21st century technology millions of years ago, but can't rely on anything more than a camera to find people? No biosensors? C'mon! 3) There are United States soldiers in the basket thingies under the machines. One of the primary objectives for American POWs is to attempt escape. These men are sent up fully armed, yet it takes a dock worker to realize that grenades can go up that anus thing?
The special effects are quite good, as is the editing. It's a toss-up: pay the $9 to see the FX on a big screen, or wait until it's on DVD. Either way, the errors will bug you.