Where's the war?

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2005)

The film is more about a man's personal family tragedy and it ignores the considerably larger issue, that being the fact that martians are taking over the world. There is a distinct lack of action in the film, to be honest there isn't really a war at all, the war goes on while Cruise roams from town to town hiding away, perhaps Spielberg was trying to avoid the film turning into independence day so he wanted to cut out a war. Once again Spielberg presents us with a torn up American family, he seems to be on this never ending quest to criticise the American family, sadly the family issues in this film become bigger than what the film really should be about and i was glad that the film came to such an abrupt end because the film wasn't worthy of having a good ending. In a TV appearance on channel 4 Spielberg said he didn't want it to be a Sci-fi movie but socio-logical, psychological, individual struggle in times of turmoil, pity. On a more happier note there is one good thing about the film, that being the King Kong trailer before it.