Way Better then Expected!

Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2005)

Spielberg has done a superb job making this movie which is highly original from the 1953 version. In it Tom Cruise is an irresponible divorced father who is given charge of his two children for the weekend. The movie is about how he has to cope with death all around him while keeping his children and himself from becoming mad.
There are some real touching and heart wrenching scenes especially when his young daughter is witnessing the horrors of people being vaporized and hungry mobs attacking their car.
The special effects are phenomenal and the story grips you from start to finish.
There were a few confusing things like what the aliens were actually doing to the humans. It seems like they were mixing the humans' blood with some sort of plant to create vines all over everything. I hope that Spielberg will explain this when the DVD comes out.