Painful. Just painful.

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2011)

The original H.G. Wells story? A literary masterpiece.
The Orson Wells radio broadcast? Fantastic.
The 1953 Hollywood movie? A lot of fun.
This chunk of cinema? 116 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.
I can summarize the movie this briefly, and without being a spoiler: * Tom Cruise spends two hours running around, out of breath, yelling at people while the ridiculous side stories about his children muddle the original plot.
That's it.
For those detail folk reading this, enjoy the incredible foresight of the Martians and their war machines.
Just... go and pick another movie to watch. Pick up the 1953 movie and watch it.