It was disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (27 June 2006)

The special effect's were great, the tension was completely believable and the fear in Tom Cruise seemed genuine. However, it would appear in my mind that these three facts were the only thing that made this movie bearable. The storyline was so tacky and predictable, the classic tale of an absentee father who is reunited with his two bratty children who both hate him, they go through a very difficult and frightening experience and then mushy gushy, they're all just one big happy family and everything turns out fine. The acting, other than that done by Tom Cruise was very poorly done and little Miss Dakota Fanning played her usual type-cast of a little girl smart-alek (too smart for her age) but with a new twist, in this one she gets to screech her way through 3/4 of the film. I was very disappointed in this film, it certainly did not meet up to expectations at all.