Lesser alien invasion movie

Rating: 5/10 (24 June 2019)

War of the Worlds was a highly anticipated film directed by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Cruise. The film is apparently a remake of an older Hollywood film. Some decent entertainment but as a whole the film fails to be completely intriguing. The father-children relationship dilemma takes over more so than the alien invasion story. And with the children, both (but mainly the son) were highly unlikable.
Within War of the Worlds a real problem is that the film tries to play the story of the invasion a lot like Signs (2002) but that film had much more intrigued, suspense and overall likable characters. We can see as to why this film was such a big box office hit but overall, it isn't nearly as great as expected.