The 'Tom Cruise' of the Worlds

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2005)

What a load of garbage. It is certainly NOT superior to the original movie. Even the lame television series was better. The only thing correct was the tripods from the original novel. Why did the aliens look like refugees from Independence Day? Why didn't someone just slap that annoying pre teen daughter of Tom Cruise's character? Can't we have a Spielberg movie WITHOUT the rebellious and often just plain STUPID teenage son who somehow, against all odds and tremendous alien weaponry, survive at the end of the movie? I'm so surprised that it wasn't called 'TOM CRUISE in the war of the worlds.' For crying out loud, people, the original movie had more character development than this. It even used NUCLEAR weapons. All this one had was Tom Cruise pontificating and posturing. Thank God I didn't pay for this crap. Read the book or see the classic movie. Maybe next time Spielberg will make a true WAR of the WORLDS (not TOM CRUISE's Personal TRAUMAS)