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Rating: 2/10 (9 July 2005)

This sucked.
War of the Worlds ends up being a disappointing vanity trip for Cruise and Spielberg. Typically predictable special effects and a non-existent storyline had me fighting to stay awake for the entire picture. I was sort of hoping that Tom would start running down the street screaming "TECH SUPPORT!", and that we would both be shaken loose from this soporific nightmare of mediocre movie-making. Thank god I snuck into the War of the Worlds after catching a Batman Begins matinée and didn't have to pay for this waste of celluloid; the box office returns are overinflated as it is. Spielberg has a track record of box office genius that is rivaled by very few directors in the past and current century. To allow him to skate by on something as disappointing as this picture was would be a disservice to him. I hope his UNTITLED 1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS PROJECT represents a better effort than WOTW.