Why is Tim Robbins an obligatory-cliché dirty old man in this sci-fi plot (flop)?

Rating: 2/10 (2 July 2005)

Steven; please do not make anymore remakes of good old sci-fi classics. Let other directors with energy and enthusiasms do the next movies in your company. Sit only as president of Dream Works. Get out of the directors chair! Why put Tim Robbins in this sci-fi "Disaster Movie" as an implied obligatory-cliché, of a dirty old man? Tim's a good actor. He did not need to do this weird character. Did H. G. have an implied dirty old man in his book? Maybe I missed it. What is Tim's "character" supposed to lend to this "Disaster Movie"? Shame on you Steven Spielberg! Go see the 1953 campy version - it's a lot more interesting and fun. Tom Cruse has lost "it" in more ways than one on screen and on TV. Dakota Fanning is good in anything. It is a shame she had to be in this dumb remake.