Hoped for so much more

Rating: 1/10 (25 March 2013)

being a fan of the Gene Barry original imagine my horror at having to watch about half of this offering! Just hard to know where to begin, Cruise character and his 'family' evoke no sympathy at all, in fact you want the Martians to kill them (but saving their clothes into the bargain). The original has the scene where the meteor unscrews from the inside, very well done scene so much tension, unrepeated with this dross where the effects are overdone and just makes the whole thing confusing in the extreme, perhaps SS thinks that this will make the holes in the plot, and there are too many to mention, seem less obvious? But the most amazing thing of all is how people can rate this any more than 2 stars!!! they must be easily pleased.