AOIIalum, do you mean to say that he was a shy little thing, or he had a shy little thing?
Bwah ha ha ha.....:p ;)

I was very disapointed with this movie too.

Getting the car to work was explained. Tom Cruise's character told the mechanic to change the solenoid. I'm not an expert on EMP, but I think that if a solenoid was out of a live circuit, it might not have been damaged.

There were, however, other things that just did not make sense, and these things blew my temporary suspension of disbelief.

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The premise was ridiculous. Aliens planted an enormous amount of infrastructure far below the earth's surface before human civilization existed. Why spend that much capital? What were they waiting for? If you are going to take over the Earth and you can do so, why wait 10,000+ years to do so?

OK, so they waited and now they are taking over the Earth. They are exterminating mankind, with energy intensive machines, one person at a time. That makes no sense at all. They had thousands of years. Just nuke the planet and wait for the radiation to go away.

No, here's the real kicker. The aliens did all of this advanced planning and they forgot to test the water and the air? Duh.

The original might have been somewhat campy, but it was more credible than this one.

i wanted a refund...i shouldn't have had to suffer twice...

i really disliked the film...i didn't expect much and yet was still disappointed. the ending was terrible, the worst i've seen in a very, very long time.