By Jingo!!

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2005)

Aside from all the bloopers (shame on you , Spielberg!!),this movie also galled most non-Americans with several snide asides.
At one stage, Cruise's son asks where the alien machines are from, and when Cruise replies "not from here", his newly gung-ho offspring asks "from Europe?". Funny in a way, bur revealing about how many Americans feel about their ancestral lands.
In another scene, Robbins says that in Japan apparently a way has been found to defeat the machines, and the immediate reaction is "well we should be able to do it, too". We should all know the USA holds the monopoly on military technology, no-one else comes close, and Werner von Braun still turns in his grave.
Most private motor vehicles stop running, but the all-American Humvee carries on? I'm surprised the downed airliner wasn't identified as an Airbus.
Baloney, and barely disguised pro-American propaganda.