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I honestly didn't think the script was that bad. I twas functional. The main problem was the family problems weren't in any way integrated with the invasion story. In the way they were in say, James Cameron's Aliens. But it's more then jsut a spectacle. To have made a summer popcorn movie like this so determininedly grim with so much emotional baggage was a bold move. This movie is not going to appeal to many people and I predict it will become a cult item in the future. The humanity here is in the tone. And that shot where the camera pulls out of thier car window pulls ahead of them and then catches up with the car as it drives up is just awesome. As is the shot of the burning train. Not because of sfx but because of the direction. With a a director of meager abilities this movie would have been unwatchable.

Yes, the scenes with the car pulling away and the train were great "shots." But I don't go to a movie to see great shots, I go to see human beings.

Also, and I have to be perfectly honest here, as a New Yorker I objected to the referencing of 9/11. The dust and the pictures posted. I'm not going to go crazy about it and start ranting, but I did find it offensive.