Horrible Remake

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2008)

Why do people even want Tom Cruise to be in any of their movies anymore these days, as everything he touches turns to crap.
This was a ridiculously bad remake of a classic film. About 3 hours of Tom Cruise fighting with his fictional movie kids and about 30 seconds of alien attacks.
A soap Opera drama set against the bad drop of a scifi movie, which seems to be the trend these days. I guess the assumption is that guys will see it cause it is scifi and girls will like it cause they turned the movie into a big long boring Soap Opera, but in reality both sexes are equally disappointed with this movie.
I just can't say enough bad things about this movie, the script, the fighting kids and Tom Cruise.
After listening to these people scream and whine threw the entire movie, I needed a handful of Advil, I'm sure if that is what most viewers would have wanted they could have just stayed home and listened to their own families bitch at them all night.
Yes, I do understand that perhaps the movie was going for a double meaning, a war of worlds from aliens and a war of world between generations in a family, but it was a very bad attempt at trying to make a point about something.
Why Oh Why do they keep doing this to movie audiences? Just cause they have special effects in a movie won't help if the script and actors are terrible.