A good movie?

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2006)

This is Spielburgs worst movie I have ever seen, considered the sort of movies he used to make. Overall, it is not such a bad movie, it is well animated and the aliens are well done. Dakota Fanning plays amazingly well for her age, very talented and very believable. That said, she upstages Tom Cruise all the time, who plays terribly. I have never seen such bad acting especially from Tom Cruise. Why hire him?. He acts like a snobby and drunk Saab of a father who has no idea how to father kids. It was not a waste of money to rent the movie, but to own it, it is a let down. But overall, I think they should have cut out Cruise and hired on a real actor who makes the father role more appealing.