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Rating: 7/10 (18 July 2005)

WoW offers plenty of awesome sites and sounds, and utlitmately a film should be judged within its genre.
I can list a number of faults - thin plot, thin characters. Tom Cruise as a regular guy is hard to accept. Some sequences made no sense, how can 3 people tossed off a boat like a kicked-over ashtray, wind up in the water together holding hands?
It could have been more interesting, perhaps show some interaction or even explanation of the aliens. Imagine the excitement of hand to hand combat with the aliens. But its possible they wanted to stay reasonably close to H.G. Wells original version.
In any case, not the best movie, but like a good roller coaster, it was fun, so thumbs up!