If you are looking for a good movie, please keep searching because this one does not qualify as such.

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2008)

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is about a New York City dad with almost no time for his kids and their battle against evil alien invaders. Tom Cruise plays the father with Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin as his two, distant and resentful children. The little family must put aside their differences in order to survive the invasion. The aliens appear and wreak havoc on the city, and most of the United States, very efficiently with no concern for the humans that get in their way.
I thought this movie was awful; there were many plot inconsistencies, scenes with disgustingly bad acting, and things that weren't even in H. G. Wells' novel, on which this movie is based. I think Tom Cruise was a terrible choice for the narrator, especially since his emotional scenes came off extremely cheesy and badly played. Dakota Fanning is incredibly irritating in the beginning where all she does is scream and complain about dumb, random things that don't relate to or add anything to the plot at all. As for being a film based on Wells' classic, I really don't think the War of the Worlds movie version did the novel any justice at all. In fact, the only thing this movie had going for it was its use of special effects which, I will admit, were pretty sweet. This movie is a complete waste of time. Instead of watching this movie, take up juggling, ventriloquism, bird watching, or even spoon collecting instead, because at least then you'll have something to show for the two hours you would have otherwise wasted.