Suspenseful, but seriously flawed

Rating: 5/10 (1 July 2005)

Had a good feeling about this movie until something like half an hour remained. The effects were nice, and the savage nature of man, when he is backed into a corner, was brilliantly portrayed through the battle-for-the-car scene. But the boy was beyond obnoxious, not to mention incredibly stupid (literally, hard to imagine anybody being this dumb). Seriously, the world is in deep pooh-pooh, and now you decide to stage a teenage rebellion?!? And what the hell did he think he would accomplish by taking on the aliens kamikaze style? And how the hell did he survive that? And why, in name of all that is logical, did the aliens who supposedly was vastly superior in intelligence not come up with some sort of vaccine to counter the bacteria on a planet they supposedly had planned to conquer for a million years? Ridiculous.