Terrific entertainment

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2005)

Thoroughly enjoyed the film. Entertaining, thrilling with many moments of genuine squirming tension. Taken from the offset from the perspective of "one less then perfect human" (just like 95% of us then?) Tom Cruise forms the central character, as a divorced self-centred Father, who has son and daughter stay with him over the weekend. This forms the frame-work of the film. The relationship between himself and his 2 siblings and how it changes each members values of each other. By the way there's Aliens and Tripod war machines, red vein slime, etc as well. Well done the whole cast and crew.
Continuity. When the lightening strikes the various parts of the earth, nothing electrical works. However We still see people taking photographs with digital cameras and video recorders. oops.
The car which Tom Cruise escapes in is not a VAN/truck, which he suggested to the garage mechanic how to fix. They drove away in a PSV.
Tom Cruise shoots a bullet into the air. someone else uses his gun and unloads a lot more bullets than the gun can hold (6 shells).