Verging on the rubbish side of poor

Rating: 4/10 (13 August 2012)

When will people realise that the only way a war of the worlds film will be fully successful is when they ACTUALLY MAKE THE STORY HG WELLS WROTE!
This film is OK in places -though Dakota Fanning really should have died early on - but all the good stuff takes place 'over the hill' with Cruise's son Robbie.
If we had followed him this would have been better.
It is so annoying that a Spielberg Cruise partnership was so poorly put together. The casting isn't great -again Dakota Fanning playing a neurotic 10/11 yr old who as normal in her films seems to have to be in charge...her sister would have been sooooo much better in this!
I just wish this had been better but no once again as with the flying coat hangers in 1953 version a desperate need to move the story to America and update has ended up with a poor interpretation of a phenomenal story.