awful

Rating: 1/10 (21 November 2005)

i sat down yesterday to watch a couple of dvds since i had the day to myself and was bored!the two movies in question were, its a wonderful life and war of the worlds. the first of these movies being a truly great masterpiece did not help my first impressions of the second!
from the first moment we get to meet the characters, tom cruise plays a typical cruise character, supposedly humorous and laid back, the daughter who is played by dakota someone who plays the same role that she plays in every movie, a little girl who is too intelligent for her age, and finally the stupidest character in the movie, the son!the son who is just so annoying and adds nothing but hate and anger to this movie!
the aliens come, blow up the place as aliens always seem to do in these movies, and then die!nobody knows why they are dying but good old morgan takes about 20 seconds at the end to explain to us!
so many scenes were annoying for me, the scenes as they escaped in the car, the words "this is your space, you own it" will annoy me for a long time! the scene in the basement where they really did milk the alien interest in that house!why were two of those machines sent down to look for anyone living in that house?why were 4 aliens then sent down to look?after finding nothing both times why was another machine sent in to look?i suppose they knew that there was a good chance for a high profile kidnapping down there, i mean its not every day that you get the chance to kidnap tom cruise! what about the ending too?how come the whole family survived this?i would say that 90% of the population were killed but both kids, tom, the wife and hubby and the grandparents all survive?and unharmed?haha and just what was the son trying to do by chasing the army?he wasn't going to get involved with the fighting so why was he so eager?he was the most annoying character, always being a petulant bore and then to add insult he survives! then when the boat capsizes, this little girl survives being thrown into the ocean, waves over her head, ice cold water etc and she is fine?
terrible terrible terrible!