A Cruise-Spielberg Collaboration That Falls Short

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2011)

War of the Worlds is a science fiction thriller film that was adapted from H. G. Wells' novel of the same title.It stars Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier,a divorced dock worker.He is estranged from his children and living separately from them. As his ex-wife drops their children off for him to look after for a few days, Earth is invaded by aliens driving Tripods.The earth's armies are defeated, and he tries to protect his children and flee to Boston to rejoin his ex-wife.
The film was directed by Steven Spielberg. It marks the second collaboration between Spielberg and Cruise after the 2002 hit movie,The Minority Report.
Unfortunately,this does not live up to the same expectations of another Cruise-Spielberg movie.It was slow at times.Also,the special effects and production values were given more attention rather than the characters of the story.It simply became a movie with a simple story and nothing more.An 8/10 rating is more than enough for this movie.