Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (30 June 2005)

If you're going to rate a film on pure spectacle, this one would easily get a 10 - it's utterly astounding.
The acting is uniformly good, and the idea of showing the film purely from the perspective of Cruise's character - so the audience knows nothing that he doesn't know - works extremely well.
But there's no plot, no underlying logic behind *anything* that happens, be it human or alien-initiated - every single plot decision seems to have been taken from the perspective of 'wouldn't it be cool if...' or 'Let's shock people with the nastier sides of human nature now' or 'Now we must give our hero a tough decision'... this was plotting-by-numbers at its most obvious (and painful)
With a decent script, this should have been one of the best Scifi movies ever made. Alas, the only good parts are the eye candy.
Andy