May Contain Spoilers: Scientology Starts Cars!

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2006)

I was disappointed with this movie on several levels. The biggest is the lack of attention to detail that others have mentioned. When people get zapped by the invaders, THEY disappear but their CLOTHES are intact and go flying about? Every car in the area stops...Except the one used by Tom Cruise. Maybe this Scientology stuff where you can become god if you're rich as a god and enough people treat you like one on earth that so many celebs believe in because of their delusions from fame really works if it can allow you to miraculously start cars.
The only good thing about the movie is when it recalls the original 1953 version, and for that you're better off with the original every time. For all its jazzy special effects, it still doesn't beat the original which had all of the loose ends tied.
Avoid it and see the original. And remember the thrills you had, if you were one of the fortunates like I was, to have the juice scared out of you by that freaky three-colored "eye" probe and that slithering hand down that ramp.
I actually breathed easier at the end of the '53 version. This one only had me sucking in my breath to think of the wasted money and talents both by those producing the film and those who went to see it.