Good CGI but Little Else

Rating: 4/10 (16 June 2013)

This movie could have been so much better but for the terrible storyline and acting. The CGI was brilliant and most of the story was OK, but I couldn't stand Dakota Fanning's constant shrieking and screaming all the way through the movie. I have never hated a child actors performance so much as in this movie.
I think the approach was all wrong, taking it from the family perspective rather than dealing with the bigger picture like other epic movies do, I really got bored of the family story that was going on meanwhile there were these aliens attacking the earth. We don't connect with the family really and we don't know much about why the aliens were attacking and in the end we get left with nothing but a soppy Hollywood ending and more shrieking from Dakota. Every time she did that I had to turn the sound down it annoyed me so much.