Lame

Rating: 2/10 (24 December 2008)

This movie had plot holes and disbelief suspension ten times the size of the special effects. The world is being destroyed and you have your son escape carrying a cardboard box? Cities are being trashed so you escape to Boston? The roads are navigable even though everyone's car has stopped? He thinks the ferry would be running amidst all the destruction? And does that car have a bottomless gas tank? The aliens blow everything to pieces yet carefully search a cruddy farmhouse? The aliens feed on people yet blow them away willy- nilly? (maybe there's a buffalo metaphor in there) Communication is destroyed yet the military can mount an organized response? The news crew's equipment still works when phones and radios don't? Why did people smash the windshield at the ferry? Why were Ray and Rachel the only ones to go into the (conveniently open) farmhouse? How did Rachel get outside without disturbing the red strands, and why would she have run outside? The idiocy went on and on.
Besides the completely stupid story and complete absence of character development, the special effects were really cheesy and not believable.
The only modestly interesting part of the movie was the 10 seconds that the mirror was held up to the alien eye. Unfortunately, that little bit was unconnected to any other plot element.
Save your time. See a movie with dialog, or heart, or a message, or likable characters, or even a plot.