Cruising disaster

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2005)

I do not like Tom Cruise. I do not care much about action movies. I admired some of Spielberg's movies. I love to go to the movies but this year there is so little choice that I decided to see the War of the Worlds, especially because I had heard so much about the Orson Welles radio show. Can I please have my money back? Mr. Spielberg you are a wealthy man, six dollar fifty for an afternoon ticket was way too much money to watch that piece of junk. Nothing made sense in this movie. The relationship of the divorced couple and the children. The people watching the earth break open without running. Most cars not driving, but of course the one of Tom Cruise. Cameras not working, but the TV crew could take pictures and a camcorder still working. The crashed airplane which did not touch the Cruise car and the drive-away-path. On the boat the family ends up in the water - it is obviously winter and ice-cold - but they happily walk in their wet clothes for miles - which must have dried miraculously. The whole way people interacted in face of a catastrophe. The end of the movie.
Could I please became an actor and make millions - I can scream and I can look wide-eyed frightened. I can also run and jump on furniture. I could also write screen-plays which make no sense at all. How stupid have people become that they give a movie like this good reviews - especially journalists? Unfortunately I read a good review and decided to see the movie. Of course Spielberg is entitled to make a bad movie. But so bad? With all these resources. I was not impressed by anything. None of the action scenes, none of the actors, none of the alien devices. At the end of the movie somebody in the theater tried to clap and was met with deafening silence. If Hollywood continues to produce such inferior crap, I continue to watch good foreign movie I can get my hands on.