i wish i could have give this a zero . sure i will admit that i also mistakenly pick this up think it be the spielberg version . a clever marketing ploy release it at this time and be prominently display at the video store . however and i be willing to give it a go anyhow i wish i wouldn not have . where do i start . i have read some of the other review here and have to say i disagree with anyone who think any of the acting be good sorry even c. thomas howell stunk . none of the performance be any good . not a one . even if the acting be decent the dialog be terrible . ginormus and dick skinner just doesn not really cut it . now a for the story well it be terribly adapt and must have be edit by a 5 year old . the main character be constantly run into situation that be way convenient or at least appear that way due to how the film be edit together . for example he be try to get to a place call new hope to find his brother . during a brief break someone just randomly hand him the direction to new hope . what the hell be that . when he get to new hope he just happen to stumble onto his die brother . then there be the part where he have be travel away from his destination for day and just happen to come across the car his wife and son be travel in . he be go in a different direction then they be how do that car end up where he be . he have a black back pack that randomly appear and disappear throughout the film . there be part of the film where the character be just wake up in the morning and then two second later it be night or bad yet dusk of the next day . i also can not forget the main character and the preacher fall through the floor of a house for no reason we do not find out until later that an alien have land on the house . which remind me of the moment when they be walk and suddenly find themselves stand under an alien they do not notice . what the hell and the alien be like two story tall with huge body and multiple leg how could they miss it . there be one point where an alien kill a random citizen and supposedly by spit some kind of junk at him but you never see the stuff fly it just appear on the guys face . the special effect in general be terrible . the entire movie be like a bad train wreck . when we finally get to the end and after this guy try to get to dc to find his family and they just appear . no search no ask question nothing . just oh there you be i be so happy the end . i be sorry if my review ramble a bit but this movie be so bad i have a hard organize my contempt . please save yourself the time and do not watch this sneakily display pile of cinematic stench . it be quite possibly the bad film i have ever witness . i would rather have be get a root canal it would have be less painful .