Frustrating

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2005)

I was pretty excited to go out and see this movie on opening day only left to be wondering what was the point of this movie. From the very beginning I was annoyed by the kids. Dakota Fanning was not cute and after the first five minutes of Tom Cruise being the bad father it was time for her to go into flip out mode for the entire film. Her constant screaming and whining felt like I was going to have to babysit her from the audience. The Aliens intent was never fully known in the film and that frustrated me even though that may have been the intent of Wells. (I have never read the book or seen the movie). There seems to be no distinct time period in the movie but the aliens are supposed to be making an extinction attempt and yet this whole family is absolutely fine and their house in Boston is still fully intact. How stupid. When Cruise's son disappears it almost seems like Spielberg does this because he won't fit in when the alien arm scene. I have just been left utterly confused by what the point of the movie was. Tom Cruise still didn't come off as a good father at the end and while I liked the fact that the smallest creature took down the aliens it seemed very rushed at the end just to get it over with even though I was more then happy to get out of there. Go see this one in the cheapies for the effects or rent it not worth 10 bucks.