Tommy and Stevie "strike" again!

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2006)

Put these two "greats" together and you can only get a soup of uncertain artificial taste, and I mean also their previous movie "Minority Report".Spielberg must clinically be suffering from a Peter Pan complex, or otherwise have a childhood fixation, as all his movies revolve around a big unreal toy.Be it a silly looking alien or the big dinosaurs, the big shark or ship or a future sterile high-tech desensitized world, or the big alien tripods, or any unreal element, all his movies totally lack the feel of reality. Spielberg always relies on that effect the first glimpse of the oddity he uses as a central element has on the audience, and then spins this element on display so all angles finally have been exposed, and the latest special effects techniques have been used(this is why children like his movies). This is all, no real emotions are being explored, or any real dramas unfold(with a few exceptions like "Schindler's List", which in my opinion are also pretty surreal in the sense that they rely only on the visual).
Who better could he find to portray his hollow fairytale than Tom Cruise, the least talented overpaid actor in Hollywood.The actor who after 15 years of "acting" goes and takes acting lessons probably hoping that he will be awarded an Oscar, because the small sterile walking Razzie has an ego the size of a dinosaur.I'm sure these two will give us more reasons for a headache in the future, as they clearly just discovered the taste of each other.Also I'm sure that they will be responsible for some of the most expensive productions in the future, to make sure that at least cost-wise they made the biggest something.
Condoleances to Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins(and other true actors who associated themselves during the years with Stevie only to cash in), who really don't deserve this "select" company. No matter how bright Steve and Tom light up the screen technically, the real world looks increasingly sad with the likes of them on the steering wheel of the American movie industry.