Tom Cruise can ACT

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2005)

Y'know, it's all too easy to watch a Tom Cruise movie these days and just think "that's Tom Cruise." In this movie, I found his character to be believable. Annoying and frustrating at times, but believable. And Dakota Fanning is wonderful.
The story is pretty much the story, and if you know WOTW, then it's familiar. This remake, with up-to-date effects (aliens and their machines), is well done. The mystery and incomprehensible nature of the aliens and how they prepared and why they're doing this remains from Wells's classic.
Well worth the price of a ticket.