Good film but plot holes & ending ruined it

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2005)

To start I did enjoy most of this film. The first half is especially good but this movie is just way to "hollywood" with plot holes all over the place. Some things that just are way to convenient: Family gets the only working car, there's a convenient path for them to drive along the highway even though all other traffic is stopped, when the plane crashes at the parents house their car is *still* intact even though the house is destroyed? Then there's still a perfect path for them to drive on. Don't mention the guy using his video camera right after the EMP went off. Then there's the ending. The aliens magically die off due to germs. Seriously, a civilisation that can invade another planet should have some medicine to cure it or would've thought about that ahead of time. Why oh why, more importantly how did the son live?? This is a movie that had tons of potential that went unfulfilled.