Awesome, dark movie.

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2011)

Tom Cruise's dysfunctional performance along the first 30 minutes and a lot of exposition dialog throughout the whole thing certainly do not benefit this movie. But at some point Cruise gets the chance to play a scared fu*/up which I found he does pretty well for some reason and between all the dull dialog there are enough authentic performances and an outrageously talented Dacota Fanning to make this movie not appear cheaply written.
The rest I found just pretty fu/*ing awesome, meaning not just the action. Spielberg doesn't forget to not just deliver dialog and explosions, but some actual scenes and among them a few damn effective ones. Great movie, great cinema. It's not a Spielberg movie for nothing.