Surprisingly good

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2002)

I was going to avoid this movie. The combination of Tom Cruise (a lousy actor) and Steven Spielberg (a lousy director) sounded hellish. But all the good reviews got me interested, so I saw it. And it wasn't bad!
The story (for a Spielberg film) was complex, the direction was good and the film was done in washed out color. Cruises performance was again lousy (no shock there), but everybody else was great...especially Farrell. The film does have bad things...it's too long, the grimy look wears you down and it does have a happy ending which I didn't buy for one second. But it's still pretty good. Also there are incredible special effects (especially those creepy robot spiders...brrrrrrr).
Worth catching even if you hate Spielberg and Cruise.