a great movie

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2005)

in war of the worlds the first 3/4's of the movies is pure genius and old school Spielberg. The movie follows a dad (cruise) who is divorced and has two kids he barely knows.Cruises ex wife is going on a trip to Boston and gives cruise the kids for the weekend. Cruise a horrible parent try to learn more about his children until a violent lightning storm erupts next to his home. The ensuing events after this lead to a mass alien invasion and Tom cruise his daughter (fanning) and his son on a fight for survival from the alien invasion. This was a great movie..it frightened and excited with its amazing special effect. The aliens were very straight forward and the movie did not trail off and get to complicated or weird like most alien sci FYI movies. Cruise plays a great role probably his best since risky business and shows off great acting skills. This movies dose not disappoint except for a bad shallow character played by Tim robins. Robbins who has not intrigue or mystery seems to just be in the movie to make it longer. All in all with the terrible movies that have been coming out lately this was a delight.