Good, not extraordinary

Rating: 8/10 (11 February 2006)

I heard a lot of praise done to this movie, so I decided to rent it, because I hadn't seen it in cinema when it was showed. The truth is, that it is not the best movie of it's kind, though, at some parts it is quite gripping. Of course, Cruise, the big savior, Dakota Fanning doing a pretty good role, yet I do not believe she will raise to be a real star, mostly because she can only be seen acting only a single type of roles, and those are of the heartless child, very mature one. I haven't read H.G.Wells' novel, so I can not make a comparison on that term. Anyway, the movie was good, but not extremely good. I mean, there were parts which I really wanted to skip. This is a movie I wouldn't like to see the second time, but it wasn't very bad after all.