A dreadful waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2009)

I bought this because the book is one of my favourites. The opening was promising, but it deteriorated rapidly. People hanging about waiting to get vaporised. So Blue collar worker goes on noisy, incoherent trudge from New Jersey to Boston with his two spoilt children in tow. He's nearly as immature as they are. The children constantly pointing his poverty out to him was a particularly irritating sting in the tail. Of course "Ray" can lay hands on the one working vehicle for such a trip. Of course they lose the car. His spoilt little madam of a daughter incessantly screaming nearly drove me mad. The son was basically just there. Until the end when he inexplicably wanted to go and watch people killing aliens. Then they arrive at Mum and Boyfriend's curiously serene street for a surreal scene in which the supposedly life threatening thing they have just been through for three or four days was just a walk in the park. And Son is already there? For a movie with a lot of noise, and a lot of "action" very little actually happened. Definitely worth a miss.