Plot less disaster

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2005)

Tom Cruise's character was poorly thought out. After reminiscing about his comments when he tried to fiddle with the characters that made up Mission Impossible, I think I understand him a little. He must make the story unique. Otherwise he feels that the story is just more of the same. Unfortunately, Cruise seems to influence every script he's in to the detriment of common sense. In this case it was a disaster of Biblical proportions.
Why does Cruise ruin nearly everything he's done since Top Gun? The script was so idiotic I was rooting for the aliens to zap him! The two kids were actually out-acting the star. When child actors have more sense written into their characters than the star, something's very wrong. Now, if Tom Cruise's character died, then maybe the 2 kids could go and do something that made sense. Running toward populated areas when he knew there were going to be more aliens there was beyond dumb. Idiot plot. Idiot acting! Score of 1. (and that's being generous).