[Crotalus]

I too found it lacking. It felt like the aliens were only attacking Jersey and not the entire earth. The focus was to specific.

It seems to me that some directors lately want to take the "big budget movie with a specific human story" theme a little to far. You can see it in the movies Pearl Harbor, War of the Worlds, The Thin Red Line, Independence Day, etc. These movies are about huge world changing events in history, yet they focus in like a (friggin) laser beam on one human story and thus the story about the events around them suffer.

Sometimes it is OK just to focus on the world changing event with just a little humanity thrown in and it still be a good movie. Why does everything have to be a love story....ugh.