moronic

Rating: 5/10 (28 January 2007)

If the aliens planted the devices underground, they would have to have done so before the cities were built. Since history shows no evidence of any reports of this, they would have to been planted before any men were there to see and/or understand this, This places the insertion of the devices to many thousand of years ago. If they came to earth to use the planet and harvest it's natural resources, why would they not do it when they crossed interstellar space to plant the devices? So Spielberg has them travel across interstellar space, plant the devices all over the world and then leave for some tens of thousands of year. Why -for coffee? Then they would have had to repeat the process to come back to earth after many generations of their civilization passed. This premise -which wasn't in Well's book - is absurd. I am guessing Tom "xenu" Cruise must have had a hand in the script's logic. Also the aliens are consuming the blood of a species foreign in DNA to their own, obviously without testing the blood they were consuming. So we have technology to cross many light years of space, but are too dumb to test the blood of the race they are consuming. This was quite possibly the stupidest movie, next to Travolta's travesty,that I have ever seen. Great special effects, OK acting, very, very stupid plot. Why can't these people actually film the book they are quoting the story to be based on?