I would rather have preferred watching something else

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2005)

I had high hopes for this movie. With the tremendous amount of media attention this movie has been receiving and the amount of advertising, I thought this movie would certainly deliver (that and I'm a fan of Steven Spielberg and yes, even Tom Cruise)... Alas, I was sorely mistaken. At the end, I tried to convince myself that the film was a good one, only because I thought it was me who felt something lacking in it. But hearing the responses of my friend and other movie-goers around me, I think the feeling was mutual: you're just not satisfied by the end of the movie. It's not that you're upset with a lack of resolution or anything, you just feel cheated when the hype was promising so much more. It's a simple plot, and while the acting and special effects were very good, there's nothing much this movie offers that you haven't already seen in other alien movies. For entertainment value, I would far more recommend INDEPENDENCE DAY without hesitation. I'm glad I didn't have to spend more than $4.50 - otherwise I would have been really upset.
Without giving away any particular elements in the movie, I have to say that, frankly, for such intelligent aliens, they did some pretty stupid things.
If you're trying to convince yourself that the movie you just saw was good, stop trying to convince yourself. It probably wasn't, and that's how we felt about this. Sorry for you die-hard Spielberg/Cruise fans.