Tightly wound tension with very real FX and strong story line.

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2005)

One measure of how much I'm enjoying a movie is how aware or unaware I am of the passage of time while sitting in the theater.
During War of the Worlds there was no sense of time whatsoever. It flew by as I remained riveted to the wallop this movie delivers. When it ended I realized I had been leaning forward literally sucked into the action.
The presentation was realistic sticking to pure Sci-Fi, never slipping into comic bookish fantasy.
The acting, from Dakota to Tom, is believable in conveying the sense of desperation and terror an alien invasion would invoke.
For pure entertainment this is the summer of '05 movie to see!