Scariest movie I have ever seen!

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2005)

OK, I'm a huge fan of horror films and love to get lost in the fright of a movie. For the first hour of 'War of the Worlds', I couldn't move. I'm not even quite sure I was breathing.
The reason this movie is so compelling is it follows a family, and in the midst of the family it runs across humans just like us. This does not depict a battle that is expected, or a battle between different people of this world. This battle is thrown upon the unsuspecting human life. There's no time to prepare. There's hardly even time to think about what is happening before it's too late. The first part of the film depicts what I just spoke of so well.
The film continues along this pace. The scene with the bodies floating down the river is haunting. There are obvious flaws in this movie, that I noticed amidst my enjoyment. However, the movie is so enthralling that I don't care about them.
Tom Cruise(who I'm not always a fan of) has brilliant moments in this movie. He makes excellent choices and deserves a lot of credit for this performance.
Basically, this movie depicts a helpless humanity. It is something of the likes that I have never seen. My advice: don't look for stuff to criticize, put yourself in the place of the characters, imagine how "we" would react to these happenings. The film does an amazing job of allowing you to do this, give in to it.