It stinks. It really does.

Rating: 3/10 (5 July 2005)

For you effects lovers who don't care about much else, stop reading and see a matinée. For the rest of you that think effects should be subservient to worthwhile plot and well-crafted editing, read on. (I'll be as brief as IMDb allows).
As others have said, the first 45 minutes or so of this flick are worthwhile. Good tension-building and good action. It's a steady and painful decline from there until, after a couple of unintentionally funny military lines, your jaw drops in utter horror at how ridiculously Spielberg finished the film.
WotW gets 3 stars from me because the first 45 minutes were a 7 the ensuing 1'15" a 1. Please don't support this kind of substandard entertainment by paying full box office price as I foolishly did. I should have surmised that the advertising onslaught was a desperate attempt to rack up as much 1st week cash as possible before the word got out about how bad this film is.