GREAT FX, but GAPING, JAW DROPPING story blunders!!!!

Rating: 5/10 (9 July 2005)

Wow, hard to believe Spielberg has done a movie which 1) Has a good amount of his magic 2) Great FX, 3) Good acting ...BUT PLEASE !!!! Everything electrical gets zapped EXCEPT the camcorder he wants you to see that records the destruction at the BEGINNING of the mayhem..right there I thought "you are kidding me, THIS is a Spielberg??" And why are the aliens so STOOPID!! Come on. they plant these freakin tripods or whatever into the ground a million years ago and plan this out for supposedly their whole lives and they didn't think "Hey maybe we should check to see if the atmosphere is OK for us to breathe in too!?" DUH!! And with all the technological advances, the aliens use an UNSTABLE 3 legged tripod to do the killing? Heck I know they wanted to keep vision with an old classic novel, but please don't insult our intelligence here. This unfortunately is only the beginning, there's more, but I'm not gonna waste my time finishing because they shot this movie in a very short amount of time, and by all the background holes in the plot, it is obvious this movie was done just for the money they knew they would rake in with Cruise and Spielberg attached. THAT SUCKS! Go watch Minority Report again, that was a good movie that DID NOT insult our intelligence in exchange for our money. The ending is Soooooooo sappy too ...I thought "WHAT!? Oh give me a break that REALLY is IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Boo!!