A poor dull invasion film

Rating: 3/10 (2 October 2015)

In preparation for his upcoming film bridge of spies I thought I would watch Steven Spielbergs war of the world's. The premise of this film sees a guy being put in charge of his kids when an alien invasion starts to happen. Now tom cruise is the lead in this film and he is definitely the best part of this film. You wanted to root for his character and you understood his motivations to protect his kids in this apocalyptic scenario. Dakota fanning played his daughter and I couldn't stand her in this movie, all she did was scream and it became incredibly annoying so I ended up not caring about her. Her brother was even worse, I hated this guy from the very start. He was just so irritating and just a dumb character that I really didn't care about. They run into this crazy guy and he was just a cartoon. The story was garbage, we have no idea why the aliens are invading, it gives no indication on their motivations. Also I didn't care about anybody in this film except for tom cruise which goes against the whole point of the film. The end sucked as well, it was as cliché as you like and it was really abrupt making me feel like 30 minutes of the film was missing. The script just didn't have much weight to it at all. Moat of the drama didn't work and there was no humour at all. The style looks so outdated now, the aliens for the most part looked really bad. There were a few scenes where it looked decent but for the most part it wasn't good. Overall this is a movie that you should skip of Spielbergs.