I want the last two hours of my life back

Rating: 5/10 (4 July 2005)

This movie could have been much better. I am not sure, but it seems like Spielberg followed the H.G. Wells script to the letter. Some viewers may have liked that-I did not. I cannot be too specific (and won't), but I will say that more improvisation would have helped. Too many times in this film I felt as though something unforgettable was going to happen, and then it didn't. I would not have given much more thought to it had it not been a Steven Spielberg film. Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning are good. I thought the camera-work was spectacular. Besides the storyline, the film wasn't that bad. It's just that I would have liked a better, more developed story. So don't go into the theaters expecting too much.