Excellent Drama, but lacked a lovable hero.

Rating: 9/10 (5 August 2005)

I found "War of the Worlds" to be great drama. The acting and the directing were superb as well as the special effects. The reason I could not give it a ten was that the story lacked a truly lovable hero. Dakota Fanning and Tom Cruise gave great performances. Tom Cruises character, however, never seemed to rise above the average person in regards to me. he did grow from the character he was at the beginning, but that was something we expected. I think that Spielberg was excellent at catching the nature of panicked mobs. I believe that Spielberg was primarily focused in showing us a more realistic view of what might happen to people in such a situation than selling out seats, which is something a great director can take the leisure of doing.