One of the worst films I have ever seen

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2005)

Spielberg has a liking for weak, self-centred individuals who somehow come good. And Tom Cruise's weak and pathetic central character in this dreadful film says acres about the director.
If it weren't enough to saddle a science fiction classic with a self-centred idiot as its slacker hero, the film wreaks havoc on H. G. Wells original story and fills it with irrational and illogical behaviour patterns. No one in this film acts in a normal or believable way. We have entered an insane asylum where the lunatics are performing some kind of morality tale.
The film's characters lack definition, and have no consistency in their actions. All the characters scream a lot, panic and lack any human decency, which is what most of Spielberg's characters always do.
The film also manages a flip pro-military salute with the son's abandonment of family values to go fight the invading aliens.
Shame on you Mr. Spielberg - go get a story teller to write your next epic and spare us from any more losers as heroes.
Leave well alone and watch the superior George Pal original with gene Barry.