What a load of ...

Rating: 1/10 (13 July 2005)

It truly takes a serious talent to make a movie so bad. Ed Wood would be jealous of Steven's latest cinematic vomit.
Dakota Fanning is a good actor. Unfortunately her role in this movie is to annoy everyone and acting like an idiot. Her brother in the movie is a retard with no discipline or any sort of understanding of his surroundings. You just do not act out like the kids did in this movie, without getting some sense beaten into you. Cruise was quite bad in this one also...I loved him in Magnolia, and he has done some roles where his actual skills were needed, but this time he just tried to look scared and confused and dumb. I guess he did that, but does that count for great acting? His character was a spineless git who could not even control two little children in time of crisis...the kids walked all over him and made surviving a real task.
Major plot holes, horrible characters, no feeling...just a waste of money and talent. I'll give this trash 1/10 because there is no option for -10 etc. As bad as Independence day and Pearl Harbor, though this had less pro-American propaganda.