Cheesy at best

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2005)

Come on, Steve, get a life. Get some imagination! GET SOME ORIGINAL IDEAS FAGAWDSAKE! To take (or rather to appropriate - TO LIFT) the most tired & overused clichés of your own movies - especially Close Encounters (which in my view was a girly-boy snorer on its own) is really inexcusable.
This remake is in NO WAY superior to the 1950s version with Gene Barry. That one had zip, great George Pal classic sci-fi look & feel.
This has Tom Cruise. Yuck. Short guy with big nose & one-note frantic shtick who does for WWW what he did for Eyes Wide Shut: Inter It. Funny how Spielberg "adopts" certain actors of otherwise questionable marketable attributes. Dreyfuss, Scheider, now Cruise.