Boring

Rating: 2/10 (18 July 2005)

Man, what a letdown. Maybe it's the story, which has only three elements: 1> They show up. 2> They kick our butts for an unknown reasons. 3> Eventually, they die through no action of our own. It's not an exciting story.
It's also not an exciting movie. The little girl screams. A lot. Tom Cruise poses. A lot. It's got great special effects, but that's really not enough. It is a summer blockbuster which typifies the summer blockbuster -- great eye-candy, very (very) little resonance once the echos die away in the theater.
We don't care about the monsters, we don't care about the humans fighting them, we don't care about Tom's family life, we just don't care about anything in this movie.
If you take a date to see this movie, be certain you've planned some topics to discuss after the movie, because you will have nothing to talk about otherwise.