This is not a good film.

Rating: 4/10 (2 July 2005)

There are very serious plot weaknesses which make it almost impossible to enjoy. There are spoilers here.
Cruise picks up an interestingly cold piece of alien substance and carefully places it in his pocket...surely they key to unlock the secret of the alien's destruction...and we never hear anything about it again.
Everything electronic stops, except, er, for a video camera (and Boston).
Cruise is the only person to think to change a solenoid to get a car working, and doesn't share his secret...even in situations involving madding crowds and gun-toting crazies where it would *really* help...
The ending is abrupt and unsatisfying...and the Darwinian voice-over explaining that "no man dies in vain" comes very shortly after we see hundreds of square miles of countryside decorated with the mulched guts of presumably hundreds of thousands of people...
And for some reason, a little bug not only kills the aliens, it also manages to make their "vastly superior intelligence"-derived machines go haywire...