War of the Worlds

Rating: 2/10 (29 June 2005)

Oh dear, what a disappointment. Somebody needs to be spanked. Just when you thought you were going to see a great movie, you get this mess instead. Too bad they didn't read the H.G. Wells story before they made this stupid movie. It needed more suspense and less of the personal problems of an unlikeable slob. And, no, Tom Cruise singing, "My Little Deuce Coup," to his daughter when she asks for a lullaby, doesn't qualify as cute, comic relief. Poor Tom. He looked like he was acting in "Mission Impossible vs. The Aliens From Another Planet." Hmmmm, did I mention that they changed the story? There was no climatic ending. Whatever happened to the old axiom, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"? H.G Well's story was oh so much better than this. The only good thing it did was to make me want to go home and watch the old 1950's version of the movie again. It was ever so much better than this new version.