One word...WOW!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2005)

I just walked out of a packed screening and all I can say is WOW!! Spielberg has created a movie that literally had me on the edge of my seat the entire time! It instills an accompanying sense of awestruck wonder, and delivers long stretches of heightened, delirious excitement that remind you why people started going to the movies in the first place. It truly holds the audience in a grip of fear and doesn't let go! I feel like I really experienced and know what it must feel to go through an actual alien invasion! Spielberg was sooo good at making it feel real, authentic and identifiable to modern audiences. Its as if you strap yourself into a theme-park ride and don't get off until after 120 minutes of thrills and suspense. Not to mention the CGI is breathtaking! I wish you internet fanboys would actually go see a REAL movie directed by a REAL director instead of that self-conscious, pretentious garbage called SIN CITY and KILL BILL. Which wasn't made for a real audience, but for fanboy nerds who sit around and analyze Tarentio's references to bizarre Kung-Fu cinema. Ugghh! Thank god the greater portion of the American mainstream audiences still like their movies only the way Spielberg can make them!