I respectfully disagree
first you made an argument saying it was more "like the book"
i mentioned areas where it was not, so now you change tacts to camera angles
basically this movie was nothing more than "lets watch Tom cruise run around".
It could have been MUCH MUCH better with a better plot which was not hard to do and much less "star-centric" to give a bigger and better picture.
Face it man it sucked royally - nothing more than the usual CGI thrown up on screen with a pretty boy running around
The POV and sense of mounting dread couldn't have been evoked any better. It's one of the 5 or so best films Spielberg has ever made. The relentless focus on Cruise was what made ti so formally engaging. If you want to see a formulaic diaster movie ee Independence day. This was something else entirely. The poetic evocation of responding to some inexplicable calamity. And I've never seen a summer film so relentlessly grim. Audiences were walking out silently!