Anticlimax

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2005)

I was really looking forward to this movie. Who doesn't love a good destroy-the-world-movie once in a while? And directed by Spielberg! It was promising. The movie started well. I only felt that the characters were lacking something, I wasn't really worried about them when I saw them in trouble. But that was OK, there were still the great special effects and action to look at. You can trust Spielberg to do that well. The action sequences were really cool. So everything seemed to be good, tension was slowly building up. I also liked that we were following Ray and his family instead of, like a lot of these movies do, follow the president and all. But then, all of a sudden, it was over! No clue or whatsoever how this was going to end. Just a voice over at the end telling us the bacteria saved us. To me, it felt really disappointing. I was looking forward for a final battle, or a clever idea from Ray that would save us all. But no. I found out that in the book, it's all a little better. In the book, the 'clue' is that humans are unimportant, and not the most powerful of Earth at all. That's a nice message, something to think about. But that's not what I got from this movie. This movie was just disappointing.