just plain weak, lousy, lazy, etc.

Rating: 2/10 (24 November 2005)

Just saw it on DVD. What the .....? People praise this? Someone says "this is what it could be like if we were indeed invaded by extraterrestrials"? I sure hope so. I sure hope my family becomes unbreakable, my son runs onto a hillside that goes up in a conflagration, but he survives, I'm able to drive my minivan around for miles (Hours? who can tell?) unimpeded even though all other cars are dead on the road, I fall 100 feet to the ground in a steel cage & walk away fine, war machines will be prancing thru Boston but my in-laws' entire NEIGHBORHOOD in the Back Bay will suffer only from a lack of leaf raking ... well, maybe I don't hope so much for that last one. Of course, Cruise wasn't unscathed, his watch broke. But the guy next to him had a working camcorder, so why worry? And who was this woman he meets near the ferry and what was that supposed to add? So, the first half is about random people running in random directions. The 2nd half is about wondering when it will end. ps: the aliens died of embarrassment.