What a waste

Rating: 2/10 (23 September 2005)

On paper this should have been good. Top quality actor, director and World famous book. For those of you that haven't seen this film yet that's all you need to know. It should have been good. It's not, so walk away with your money still firmly in your wallet. It fact it's so bad I'm surprised that Cruise and Spielberg even allowed it to be released, they can't be desperate for the money. Cruise is badly cast as a 'regular' guy and it simply doesn't work. The character of his daughter gets on your nerves and the son is not a lot better. Spielberg hasn't got a lot to play with as it is a woeful script. Most of the time we are dealing with Cruise's family problems and the alien invasion appears to be treated as a secondary storyline If you haven't seen it yet, don't. If you have, then a few sessions of therapy will put you right