not what i wanted

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2005)

totally lame ending, not what i expected from the build up in the beginning, too quick and loose ends not tied up. and that kid should have died, anyone dumb enough to run towards the flaming ball of doom and with the lack of sense to want to see the destruction first hand instead of running away like sane people do should have become liquified fertilizer like the rest of them. i don't understand the giant butt hole that sucked people up, a little too Evolution-like comical for me but it did make me laugh. anyone who saw Independence Day could tell from the beginning how to destroy the very inefficient killing machines so that was a let down. there was no new and creative alien, no eye catching spaceships that we haven't seen before, no real attempt to make it look like earth was actually going to lose this 'war.' (the tripods vaporize people one at a time...i mean humans have more effective ways of killing off entire cities) all in all, not what i wanted out of such a groundbreaking director, and i never expected much from tom cruise anyway