I wouldn't recommend anyone watching this..

Rating: 4/10 (22 October 2008)

War of the worlds directed by Steven Spielberg is about aliens attacking the world and destroying everything in their paths. Tom Cruse stars as the main character, the narrator, along with his two children as they try to escape the aliens attacks.
In my opinion the movie was not that good, it really was not similar to the book at all and that is what I expected. Several of Spielberg's other films were more entertaining than this one. For example, Jurassic Park kept me off my seat and was an instant classic. Also, I thought Catch me if you can was really good, but so different from war of the worlds that I would have never guessed the director was Steven Spielberg. The movie did not follow the book at all, the time period was off, the same characters and situations were barley in it. The actors annoyed me and most of the movie didn't make sense, like when no cars were supposed to work, but then the narrators did. The action and drama of the movie was pretty entertaining also the special effects were good as they are in most if not all of his other movies, but other than that I didn't really enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Tom Cruises character made me mad just cause he doesn't seem to show enough emotion as he should have, and Dakota Fanning's character was to whiney and annoying. That was enough to make me not want to watch it again. Honestly, I wouldn't recommend anyone watching it.