almost there

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2006)

Although thanks to so many alien films spielberg manages to get the human side completely spot on (or at least the way one would imagine human reactions when faced with alien invasion) this film has one major drawback..
It's been holywoodified.. from the start it appeared as if the main character was more concerned with calming his daughter rather than, as in the novel, surviving..
the screaming kids don't really make me wan't to watch a film, and the whole "i'm 16, faced with vastly superior technology, and yet wan't to go to certain death to kill aliens.." is the last straw..
or rather would have been had the death been as certain as it was supposed to be.
more tragedy and less miracles and it would've been a very good film and fitting to both book and 1953 original film, ad it is it's just an overblown 9/11 homage in times where that need should be fading