RIVETING!!!!!!What a thrill ride!!

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2005)

My idea of a great movie is, when it's over you realize that you have been perfectly still through the whole thing and your finger prints are in the handles of the theater seat!!! Also, your first response afterwords is "Do I have time to go see this again? That was this movie. I am a fan of Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning so that just added to the enjoyment. Mostly though, I am a fanatic about great Sci-Fi. Aliens, BladeRunner etc.
This was a mixture of all the elements it takes. Great acting,Fantastic special effects, Blasting sound effects, and a real closeness to the original storyline.
Another very important reaction that I get from a truly great movie is that I rerun it in my head for days an days afterwords, and ultimately start picturing possible "sequel" type plots and ideas of the movie and it's characters. This movie did that and more.
As far as Critics go: What a "dead-in-the-head" type of existence it must be to go to movies like this just to see how many carping criticisms you can come up with about the stars and directors and others involved in putting together a masterpiece. Furthermore, to berate a great artist for his religious beliefs and the fact that he was willing to stand up and say the truth about a "bloated,torture based, pseudo-science" that was spawned from the horrors of the Polish and Jewish prisoner of war camps that is psychiatry shows a complete lack of intelligence and a weak spineless character. Save your movie money and stay home in your room and watch reruns of Lassie or Howdy-Doody and leave the rest of us alone to have a great time at the movies.
I strongly recommend this movie. Go see it and have a blast.