Regardless of the impressive special effects, this movie is REALLY bad. The dialogue and character development are shallow and uninteresting. The alien-human confrontation in the basement was just like the dinosaur-human confrontation in the kitchen of Jurassic Park (mirror trick and everything). Nothing really innovative here. I giggled out loud when Cruise sings the lullaby from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" to calm down his daughter. Wow. This is a bad movie.