Highly Disappointed

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2005)

What a wasted evening when I saw this flick. The effects were cool. The best actress in the whole show was the little girl. Tom Cruise did not seem focused at all. It is hard to believe that this is the same actor who was in The Last Samuri. I caught a few goofs also during the movie. They make a point to show you that an electrical storm wipes out all electrical devices such as the power to the house, Tom's cell phone and watch etc. Yet when the aliens attack the people on the street there is a dude recording it with his camcorder! Also when they get to the kid's mom's house they have a little box of food that they carried with them from Tom's house. It has very little in it. They stand and argue of PBJ sandwiches as if that is all they have to eat. There in a huge house that hasn't been attacked yet. Is there no food there? Overall I've seen better work from Spielberg. HIs new western mini-series on TNT far surpasses this movie. See something else.