Disappointing!!!

Rating: 5/10 (1 July 2005)

The best thing in this film is the visuals which lifts the film from awful to mediocre. The start of the film is relatively exciting but it goes downhill from there, the film hits a 30 minute rut where absolutely nothing of interest happens and the film becomes painful to watch. Good acting could have saved the film to a certain extent, however the girl in the film is far too over the top to feel sympathy for. The ending seems tagged on as one minute the Earth seems to be doomed and then the aliens begin die. It seems that an overlong ending (that Spielberg is famous for) may have been necessary to leave the audience satisfied. My main problem with this film is that the Alien's die due to the Earth's atmosphere and food, but they had been plotting the invasion for millions of years I would have thought that some research would have been undertaken of the Earth by the a so called extremely intelligent race. All in all movie goers will be disappointed with this film.