boom mic in shots!

Rating: 9/10 (16 July 2005)

The movie was great except for one thing... I saw the boom mic at least 15 times throughout the movie!!! I don't know if it was the movie theater's fault or what. The black at the top of the screen kept disappearing and when it did you could clearly see the boom mic at the top of the screen. I'm surprised you couldn't see the hand holding it! Other than that I give the movie 3.5 stars. Oh, Tom Cruise was little less believable than most of his other roles. Maybe it's because I can't picture him as a bad father. Even so, he was very good at the emotional scenes. And that little girl in the movie is better than most women who have been in the business for a while. However, I thought Tim Robbins was a little much for a movie about aliens. He's such a softy. Plus, he plays smart roles like "IQ". He didn't belong. I would rather have seen a crazy older guy I didn't know.