far too many basic errors just make it unwatchable

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2015)

Much of the issues I have with this film have already been covered by a plethora of previous reviewers, so I won't go back over them, suffice to say, in every scene there is at least one 'issue' that is so noticeable and off-putting to even the most oblivious watcher, that they continually build upon each other until it gets to the point where one just says to oneself "this really is unwatchable". For me, this point came at about one hour in. Mr Cruise has been driving along and has now arrived in a town somewhere. It is late in the evening and dark. There is a large angry mob of people crowding the streets; they are all very aggressive and we can only assume their anger is because the earth has been invaded by equally aggressive aliens who intend to take the earth as their own (although their anger is directed at their fellow humans). After a fracas with the mob, (in which we must assume, are made up of 100's of Americans, but only 2 have a gun!) Cruise is now sat in a late- night diner (which we must also assume is closed as there's no-one there the and lights are off). Now, bearing in mind the story line up to this point, we know that the earthlings are battling to save their plant: death, extinction, total obliteration is looking imminent/certain - this is not a spoiler, this is the story. In the diner, THERE IS A MAN CLEANING THE FLOOR!! WHAT!!?? The world is under attack and you are going to die (possibly quite) soon, no worries, i'm going into work to tidy some stuff up. This total lack of attention to detail just about sums this film up for me: so many 'things' in this film just aren't the way they would be.