Too much action, too little reaction.

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2005)

Well...
I can tell you I am impressed with the amount of money that went into having Tom Cruise get knocked around by metal mushrooms. However, being a drama junkie myself-and not exactly a Tom Cruise groupie I was a little bored with the movie. Not because there was not enough action...oh no-the blood and screaming people from Naugatuck CT...(yes my friends mother lives there and she saw him when they were filming a scene...I don't give) was plenty to satisfy me, but it was all that there was to the movie. There was no true provoke behind the young boys want to go 'kill them!'...unless it is common that at the sight of aliens all 14...15 year old boys decide to join the army. And...there is one car that actually works in the world? Why couldn't Tom just lean out the window and say to the millions-change whatever it was in the engine??! But perhaps I am just a little brutal because I have a headache from the screaming of Hollywoods endangered child, Miss Dakota. She's talented at being like my kid cousin Julia for a 9? 11? year old...but I get enough of the screaming, kicking the back of the seat at home, when I pay for the movie I want to see some weight. However-on the lighter side...there were a couple of moments when it did strike me as being well done-and on the whole it wasn't a disaster...however, I much prefer Katie Homes's Batman of an action movie to this special affect spectacular.
Comments anyone?