Another dud from Spielberg

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2005)

This film is a turkey.
The plot holes have been well documented by other commenter's in this forum however I would also like to add that the aliens in this film are about the dumbest critters in God's creation.
If they planted those giant tripods in the ground thousands of years ago why did they not just take over the earth there and then when there were no pesky humans around? Sheesh! The acting and characterizations were ridiculously hammy and the family trauma angle was absurd. The scene where Cruise and his son have the father-and-son angst while tanks are roaring by and being obliterated borders on being the most laughable in modern cinema history.
Still what else can you expect from Spielberg? The most over-rated film maker in the history of the medium. His penchant for bringing children into his films nearly always result in a trashy maudlin sentimentality which belongs in a cereal commercial - not the real world.