Not as bad as I thought, but could have been better

Rating: 4/10 (3 July 2005)

Before seeing War of the Worlds I had heard a lot of negative things about it. And I've never really been a fan of Tom Cruise. Making a long story short: I thought this was going to be a bad movie.
However, it starts out pretty nice, with Tom Cruise having family problems. His kids don't like him, and he's not a good father. Then, suddenly, there is a thunderstorm and after the thunderstorm there is an alien-invasion. Some of the action scenes are far to long, but what can you expect in a movie about war?
It was an okay movie, just a little too much Hollywood to make it good. I wasn't even worrying about the main-characters, because I felt confident that they were going to live. I'm not going to say if I was right, because that would be a spoiler, but I just didn't find the movie that thrilling. The acting was good though.
And of course, there is the one and only goof in this movie. No electric equipment is working. Yet there is a man with a camcorder to film the entire thing!