Dumb aliens

Rating: 4/10 (29 June 2005)

I never saw the original but I figured that a super smart race of aliens wouldn't miss something as obvious as breathing our air and drinking our water without first investigating it. I mean weren't they studying the earth for millions of years? wouldn't have they caught that?
And what was it with the LONG scene in the basement of that guy's house ? I mean they are blowing the whole city to smithereens, what makes this house so special that u have to send a probe and then all those alien doods down there? who cares? just blow it up like you did everything else.
I felt the ending was just too short they jumped from the discovery of the dying roots to the ending of the movie in like 5 minutes. I guess they felt that half-a**ed narration at the end would give ppl enough comfort.
And how did those aliens get there? they must have had some ships orbiting the earth. Upon seeing their machines dying don't you think they would have realized that there was something wrong and just blow up the whole planet? it all seems way too neat for me....
When the aliens got there whenever the buried those ships. Whatever was in the air now was in the air then. so why didn't they know? hey the air sucks lets think about what to do the next time we come back so we don't get killed OK?
Overall it was OK. I suppose Spielberg did his job. I really enjoyed the beginning but right after the crazy dood's basement I started hating it..
4.5/10