content: How can anybody find this film good? To me it ranks in the vein of Stargate, another good idea which was poorly executed. They both had the same net result though - a disaster. Bill Pullman was entirely unconvincing as the President; however, he was still ahead in the credibility stakes to the Military advisor, played by Robert Loggia (why not just cast Ernest Borgnine or George Kennedy instead?). This film would have been a flop if not for Will Smith's performance. Whereas the rest of the cast seemed to take the weak script too seriously, Smith's smooth-talking wise-cracks added some well needed relief to the proceedings. But casting aside, the plot was ludicrous, I won't go into too many details but I think the IBM compatible Alien computer and the dog saving incident (who cares when millions of people are dying?) were hilarious. I eagerly await a decent 'Aliens attack the Earth' film.