Fun movie to watch, but weak storyline

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2005)

The movie started out great, with the first alien coming out of the ground and killing everything that moved. Also, the special fx in this film were unbelievable and made this movie very entertaining. It was when i got home afterwards and i started thinking about the movie when i found a lot of mistakes and or problems i had with the movie. First ,in the very beginning after the lighting storm an emp zaps the entire city destroying everything electronic including things that run on battery however when the alien comes out of the ground one man pulls out a digital camcorder after another lady takes a picture with a disposable camera with a flash. This movie also left me very confused in the end, they hardly explained why the alien machines collapsed except that it had something to do with single celled organisms. This movie would have been much better if they explained the alien race we were fighting a bit more. Showing chilling digitally made images of a much further advanced alien society inhabiting a horribly polluted planet marching around in lines would have been very appropriate. With Morgan Friedman's voice explaining what we were seeing. Everyone in the theater and the characters on the screen (except Morgan, he knows everything) were left clueless and confused by the end of the movie.