W.o.W.

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2005)

This movie left us speechless -- literally. As we left the theater, we ran into friends, and simply could not come up with anything to say -- we were still in such shock from this movie. I'm not particularly a Tom Cruise fan, and it can certainly be said that he played himself in this movie, but it worked. We see a lot of movies, and I am rarely as drawn into a movie as I was on this one. Frankly, the last Sci-Fi movie that affected me so was The Matrix (the first one!). I was on the edge of my seat the whole time -- even though I knew exactly how it would end. Spielberg really knows how to pull an audience in.
The special effects were incredible. The characters were developed adequate to the story (which wasn't really about the people, after all). And the bad guys were really scary! The ending might have been a bit too "pat" for me, except that it was so brief, it was hardly noticeable except as a chance to catch my breath after the hell we had all just been through.