Wrong director in the wrong place at the wrong time

Rating: 5/10 (28 June 2005)

It probably would have been an excellent 1977 replacement for Close Encounters. Too bad nothing has changed since. The script sticks too close to the novel not to be out of date, not to mention that for the millions who did not read the book it's gonna be too tight. Excellently played by Tim Robbins and Dakota Fanning, too bad Tom Cruise will never be able to pass the action hero stage and do some real playing, because the action hero of the film has no action to take part in. This leaves Cruise with no part in the movie (except for the running). Not to mention the film is heavily loaded with major script bugs, unacceptable for a film of this size. Here's a short list of the most obvious: 1.Check for a guy with a digital camera and another one with a mini camcorder that are shooting right after the EMP storm that has supposedly knocked over every electrical/electronic device in the city - even cars not running. 2. All the cars that we see in the movie are out of commission except for the one Cruise steals... - was he the only one with an extra neuron that allowed him to think he might change a solenoid? 3. Not to mention that all military vehicles are up and running... Probably all US military vehicles were under orders to ignore the EMP storm. :-))