I didn’t really like the movie even when I was a kid. The only thing I noted in it was a certain charge of celebration, cheerful madness, a feeling of pushing boundaries. While other science fiction put people in the world of outer space, here the distant cosmos was placed almost under the door. It resonated in the 11-year-old's mind because it was in line with a recent childhood dream to find something fantastic without going far out of his yard. But that's where the pros actually ended.
- Agents are constantly rubbing game to their victims with erased memory. Are they really going to live by believing in such a labuda?
- An elephant-sized beetle can fit into human skin. How is it? Yes, we can assume that he has some kind of reduction technology for this, but it is good to mention such things in a couple of phrases.
- Kay first erased Jay's memory and then invited him to the office for an interview. Why would he go there if he doesn't remember anything about the alien and has no motivation?
- All agents are called by one letter. But English only has 26 letters. There are more than 26 employees, don’t you think?
- If a tiny pistol shoots as well as a bazooka, why any other weapon?
- The tow trucker is threatened with a gun. Just show me you have it, too, and you can take it back. He defended himself perfectly.
Going to a beetle in the stomach to get a weapon there is nonsense. Why was Jay sure he wouldn't get chewed? How did he not suffocate?
- I have never accepted and will never accept galactic nonsense. Bullshit.
But the main drawback of the film is that there is a single villain, and he is absolutely ridiculous, the whole image of a dirty baggy bum does not compare with the villains of other fiction of his time. This villain is not commensurate with the scale of the film itself, the concept itself: something like “War of the Worlds” is happening, and the heroes are tasked with killing just one jerk? Even though they have guns that half a quarter carries around? Do I have to worry about that? Usually in movies, the hero has very limited resources and has to defeat a superior opponent, and here there is a huge organization of conventionally good, they have all the technologies of the galaxy, and here they all have the enemy ... is Edgar?
Also, I'm kind of sorry for Will Smith, who basically played a parody of himself. Whether it was a comedy in itself is not a question. But this is part of the parody of Independence Day, which came out just a year earlier. Where Smith played a more or less serious role.