Spielberg's worst

Rating: 3/10 (11 July 2005)

The only good thing in this movie are the SFX, trust me. I'm not a Cruise hater but when he starts singing a lullaby to his daughter, who looks somewhere between 6 and 16 depending on the shot, you just cannot help yourself from laughing your head off. I tried but but it was so hard that tears came to my eyes and I ended up giggling like most of the audience. The rest of the cast is equally bad but I wouldn't blame them because I think Spielberg is mostly responsible for this.
Did I say the SFX were good? Yes, I did, but I forgot to mention that they were frequently used in a bad way as with the camcorder goof or the dumb extraterrestrials who were about as funny as those in Tim Burton's (far better) film "Mars Attacks".
I guess this could have been really good, because there are a few excellent scenes in it (such as the telescopic-eye scene) but it fails in so many other parts that I only grant it a three rather than a two out of ten because it wasn't boring.