Is it possible to make a C movie in 2005?

Rating: 6/10 (4 December 2005)

A little war in the beginning, then 70 minutes of Tom Cruise in basements. It is hard to believe that in the 52 years since the original was made that we could not come up with better special effects.
Apparently we are not to worry about the end of the world so much as we are to worry about Tom Cruise's family. But then I did not care about them as the producer did not give me any reason to.
Cheesy scenes! Like Cruise had the only van left in the world, and he was mobbed. Why didn't the mob just run like everyone else? Afterall, once they got the van it was not drivable anymore.
Stupid Stupid movie! The title "War of the Worlds" gives you the impression it will be a movie on a grand scale, and it turns out to be the cheapest, most trite movie as a vehicle for Tom Cruise; once again proving that this egotistical actor ignores the will of the people (as well as the directors that cast him in tripe like this).
See "War of the Worlds" 1953, but skip this one.