Flawed, but some of the finest examples of cinema entertainment

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2005)

After the first arrival of the tripods, and for about 30 mins after, Spielberg gives us some of the scariest stuff I can remember in ages.
On the whole I hate the use of GCI in film, but on the whole it is well used sparingly in this film. The tripods were scary as s***.
Flawed, in my opinion because of the appearance of the aliens that was not necessary and showed the weakness of GCI, the Abyss type tripod eye did not scare me, and the ending was disappointing.
Overall, a return to form for Spielburg who invented the Summer blockbuster.
(I went in with low expectations after some of the comments here, particular in reference to continuity errors that I looked for and it turned out were not there. Eg. The complaint about the peanut butter sandwich was not valid since the shot was not from outside, but from inside the kitchen with Cruise's reflection in the window. Please refrain from posting these until at least after a second viewing)