Unbelievable Characters

Rating: 3/10 (12 December 2005)

"Possible very slight spoiler" I rented the DVD with low expectations after the movie flopped at the box office. Unfortunately the movie didn't even meet my low expectations. Tom Cruise went back to his "all the right moves," blue color character and couldn't pull it off this time around. Being a mega star might have its down side, or was it just lack of Character building in the movie. All the characters were very thin to say the least.
The family story of a Dead Beat dad faced with the treat of Alien annihilation and taking on his neglected parental responsibilities just did not get off the ground. The ending left me thinking that if this is the moral of the story then the alien alternative for the earth might not have been a bad thing after all. If you've seen the original then there was nothing new in the movie, special effects were OK but certainly the story lacked the patented Spielberg touch. Its good as a B movie if that....