This was awful

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2006)

This movie is not about an alien invasion as the HG Wells novel is, it is about a little girl who screams all the time. It is a chick flick about a little girl and very little about the actual book and the alien invasion. A lot of blood and gore but even that was tainted by the influence of changing books to be politically correct and to gain sympathy for the characters by introducing pregnant women and screaming little girls. A better story line and better character development would have helped this poor excuse of a movie. Seeing Tom Cruise try to act as a despondent father and then a tough guy in the same scenes is laughable. This was a total waste of time. Rented it sure glad I did not buy it. For pirates, this is not worth your time to try to download. Wait a couple of months and buy it at Walmart in their discount sales bins for a buck or two, in my opinion, that is still too much.