A lousy re-enactment of H.G.Wells classics

Rating: 4/10 (6 July 2005)

Going to this movie I was not really expecting miracles, but I did not think that Spilberg would fall so low. I was not expecting Cruise to be at the pinnacle of acting art, but I was not expecting his performance to be so stiff either.
There is very little by way of a story in a movie. Putting H.G.W. into modern-day USA has been a Big Mistake (TM). Trying to make this look like "any common Amrican can be a hero" thing is a disaster. The whole "conflict of generations" thing between Cruise and his son is so-o-o-o out of place, space, time and off-topic that any sensible editor would have done the good thing cutting out entirely.
And the little bravado 'Yes, we won!' where no victory was achieved by man? Pathetic...