Spielberg is the biggest director in the world, and he announces it again

Rating: 6/10 (24 July 2005)

Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg has been co-operating before, in the science fiction thriller MINORITY REPORT (2003) that truly was one of Spielberg's most original movies. Steven Spielberg has made so many good movies (E.T., Jurassic Park, The Terminal, Schindler's List, Catch Me If You Can, Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Minority Report) and all are among top-notch. So, when he here delivers a new production of the classical WAR OF THE WORLDS movie, he goes again sci-fi with Cruise.
Dakota Fanning also stars and she's truly a upcoming star being in such a young age, though she may not get a boom and be a immediate Hollywood star, she does her job very well. Tom Cruise is without doubt one of the finest actors Hollywood has raised in the last thirty years and acts brilliantly as the childish father Ray that gets in the messy scene of alien invasion. In this he is watching his son and daughter, and their relationship isn't actually the best. So Ray suddenly understands that it's they against them, and the movie really holds up to what it promises.
It hasn't got Spielberg in his most stunning maybe, but he delivers so excellent with mind-blowing special effects and gripping drama. He is truly the one and only Greatest Hits director ever been, as he smacks the bottom-line with his pure energy and miracle of knowing how to keep the audience in the between of tension and sensibility among the feelings and pure cinematic joy. Orson Welles only needed a radio to scare of a whole American citizenship, Spielberg uses money and fine tuning all the way to Reno (whatever that means) to simply steal every eye that floats by as WAR OF THE WORLDS cracks up explosions and excitement, drama and sentimentality threw impressive movie making. It's a movie that strikes a brutal and nevertheless scary truth that things gets quickly brutal when aliens decides killing and smashing.
WAR OF THE WORLDS is everything Spielberg is in many ways; it's big, it's explosive, emotionally correct, well acted and spiced up with several great hits that no other director can achieve in the way he does. A true summer blockbuster!