meh...

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2005)

The Terminal and now this. I think Spielberg is hanging out with Lucas too much. Apparently, butt-loads of money can only crap out a butt-load of crap.
I couldn't have cared less about the characters. Cruise was unlikeable, the son was just in the way, and Dakota Fanning(the daughter)just kept screaming and was so annoying that I wished Cruise would have killed her instead of the Tim Robbins character. And I really wanted to see Robbins get killed, not his character,but him. I nearly laughed out loud at the sight of Robbins holding a shotgun.
The script really needed a lot of work. For instance, nothing with a electronic component worked, not even a watch, but people were using camcorders and cameras? Hello? Do they really think that the audience is that stupid? And the ending was absolutely dumb. The whole entire family survives without a scratch while the rest of Boston is deserted and destroyed? Lots of annoying inconsistencies, too many to get into.
There were some fun and somewhat riveting parts of the film here and there, but I can get that from a roller-coaster and a coaster only lasts about 2 minutes, not 2 hours that seemed to last a lifetime.