Terrible tribute to the story

Rating: 5/10 (6 December 2005)

Where as this film had good cgi (duh that's all Spielberg cares about anymore), its choice of actors and little flaws in the film made this movie terrible, but because it's Spielberg nobody notices yet because he's always been so good.
first of all, TOM CRUISE???!?! he's a terrible actor! horrible father portrayer. secondly, what was with that camera? i thought all electronics were not supposed to be working. and i love how the debris that surrounded the untouched house they crashed at the first night, had a neatly laid path for them to drive down as they went into the next scene.
even funnier, is how the aliens looked like rip-offs of the aliens from independence day, which ID4 is actually a rip-off of War of the worlds to begin with! what a tangled web we weave...
Dakota fanning was good, of course, and the cgi was great, like i said, but nothing more. even john williams' score was rushed through, no emotion or effort put in it. someday people will realize that spielberg is getting too old to know how to make movies. he was my idol, but his movies just aren't the same anymore. i think it all started with AI...what was with that one? ~Leo