pure claptrap

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2005)

disastrous, pretentious, exploitative, and over-hyped to the extreme, it is easy to see why Hollywood's box office receipts are down when this load of claptrap is billed as the best movie of the summer. spielberg must have pulled in a lot of IOUs from the critics to save this one from the horrid reviews it deserves. derivative in every significant way and pointless in every way, the movie ends with the kind of ra-ra silliness that would have been appropriate to a 1950s horror flick like the Blob. A poor effort from everyone involved. Should be ashamed of themselves. People in our audience were literally laughing and booing at the ending. even for sentimental spielberg, this takes the cake. avoid at all cost. worse than AI even, and that was hard to beat. such a disappointment given the promise of Minority Report.