Rental

Rating: Null/10 (1 July 2005)

***This Review Contains Spoilers*** (kinda) I am not going to lie, I was completely disappointed in Steven Spileberg for this one. I saw this movie with hopes...and those hopes were dashed. The movie had a few good parts, you know suspenseful and a little bit scary. I just don't think paying the movie theater $9.00 was worth it at all. This is a movie that should only be watched as a netflix or blockbuster rental. The only reason it would be good on the big screen is for the action scenes, and even those were not too good.
**Spoiler Ahead** The part that bothered me the most (well there are two actually). The first scene that bothered me the most was when Tom Cruise's character is finally taken up by the aliens and he is in the metal basket like things with all the other people. He sees his daughter and is screaming at her and all of that. The next thing you know the alien's mouth is trying to suck him up. Right then and there it is like everyone wises up and decides to pull so he cannot be eaten. RIGHT before that another person had been eaten and it was like no one cared at all. Why Tom Cruise's character? I know he is the lead and everything, but come on Spielberg, then have the others trying to help the other people and not succeeding or something.
The other part that bothered me was when Tom Cruise's character left his daughter, Dakota Fanning by that tree so he could try and stop his son. If he was smart he would have carried her and then made her wait next to him. Or, he could have just made her run, then he would not lost his son. Ugh, Spielberg, again get it together! **One last Spoiler** I hated how the ending came too perfectly together. They should have made it to Boston and all like they did. But, why is it that the ex-wife, grandparents and ex-wife's husband all look perfectly fine, as does the house they come out of. Everywhere around them is rubble and the city ruined...except for the block of houses they are in. It is completely ridiculous! Oh, and I like how the son did not die and is waiting at the grandparent's house with his mom...again completely ridiculous! Spielberg could have at LEAST let the son die. It was just too hunky dory and a fairy tale ending.
People, this a rental.
I give it two stars. Tom Cruise is not even very good in it, if anyone is it is Dakota Fanning.