$30 million to run around screaming?

Rating: 3/10 (6 July 2005)

Alright. Let's see if I can get this straight.
In every other movie where our species/planet is threatened, one can usually the human protagonist to figure out exactly what to do to save our sorry skins. I find it hard to believe that so many people thoroughly enjoyed this movie where the human protagonists run around screaming for an hour and a half and, finally, 10 minutes from the end, the bad guys just start dying with no help from us. Don't know how much Cruise got paid for this job but I'm sure he got paid lots to do nothing! Now I read the book years ago and so knew how the book ended - I kinda expected that they'd edit the ending a bit to make it a bit more interesting.
My reaction when I left the movie theatre? "Meh."