Not worth watching at all

Rating: 3/10 (28 July 2005)

So, lemme see what vote this move deserves:
* 10 is for excellent movies, movies one wants to see again and again. Well, this wasn't it: -1
* Parent and kids have to run from something really, really bad - what an original storyline: -1
* We learn nothing whatever about this really, really bad thing, despite being given a few quite interesting clues. No back-story at all: -2
* I usually like kids in such movies, but this one was annoying: -1
* Ending that was at the same time utterly predictable (and I am not talking about what is already in the book, but about the movie storyline) and yet utterly unbelievable: -2
* Plot holes the size of the Grand Canyon: -1
* Annoyingly pathetic moments, several of them: -2
... Errrr ... can I please have a new rating system here? I am down to 0 and not even finished! No? OK, then let's try something else:
* There are worse movies than that one - not many, but some. +1
* The tricks are reasonably decent: +1
* Miranda Otto: Uh, well, can't really call that a part, can you? 0
* Tim Robbins: Would get this movie one point if his end hadn't been so pathetic: 0
* Tom Cruise: Has been a lot better in other movies: 0
I guess I can only recommend ID4 then - same subject, much better movie. Even if that one has a bit too much pathos, at least it isn't so pathetic.