It blew my mind that this was directed by Steven Spielberg. The plot was full of holes and was inconsistent. The human drama, story-with-in-a-story, about Cruise's character's relationship with his kids was was not at all compelling and was stupid. The never-ending scene in the basement with Tim Robbins was terrible.
Tom Cruise's career should take a bigger hit from this movie than from his wacko religious beliefs and his public statements about child birth and depression.This movie made the Mel Gibson crop-circles movie look like hard core science fiction.
Did anyone like this movie?
What, exactly, stopped the aliens? The bird flu?
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Yeah, I'm glad I didn't pay $8 for this one.
I thought like E.T. it was mostly fun for the realism of the setting. Agree the "I hate you Dad" schtick grafted on was pretty irritating.
Tim Robbins should stick to comedies like Hi Fidelity. Most movies would be improved by chucking the name actors for talented no-names without the automatic face recognition. Don't movie producers know that lightning never strikes twice in the same place?
You know the cheesy "human cold" deus ex machina was from the original HG Wells, right? [whacks forehead]
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