Just See it....

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2005)

Ray has divorced from his wife Marry. Ray has custody of their kids for the weekend; Robbie and Racheal. He's not much of a father, caring more about himself. When a strange storm starts to shoot lighting to the one spot and all electrical appliances shut off, Rays off too see what has happened. The lighting has created a hole into the ground, unearthing what was hidden beneath; an alien tripod. When the tripod starts to destroy everything in its path, people realise the aliens are here not in peace. Now has to protect himself and his kids from the impending doom of the alien invaders.
I have read a lot of what other people have been saying about this movies and most of the time its about what Tom Cruise is doing in his personal life. I don't really care what he does with his life, he can act as much of a dick as he wants, it doesn't discredit his as a good actor.
One thing I've noticed about Spielberg is that he either hits the bulls eye dead centre, or he'll miss completely; here he hits the mark perfectly. This has been so far been the best movie i have seen so far this year. At first i thought it would be like most other alien invader movies but this is so much more. This movie is like a world war II movie. It was an interesting twist to see a refugee situation from an American perspective. The action is so intense, though its not always constant. The action only come every now and then; as the story is focused more upon the family, but the action sequences are really intense that it doesn't need a lot of it. There is also a grainy look to this, giving it a hyper-real feeling, making it a lot more realistic.
With the use of all these and other references, this movie is dark and very intense. there were times i wanted to look away but couldn't as i couldn't miss a moment. The special effects were mind blowing. Unlike Star Wars where it was mostly special effects and you knew it wasn't real, here the special effects were so integrated, you thought the tripod ships were real. Though what i thought was better was the sound engineering. The sounds effects were flawless and the cinema was shaking from them.
The acting was very good. Tom Cruise earn't my respect again, though Dakoda Fanning was just brilliant. She is one of the best actresses around. Spielberg's directing is just great; like it always is. Though what made this one of his greatest movies is he didn't take the sentimental cop-out at the end, which he has done with most of his movies.
Many people have been complaining about the ending of the movie, though when you think about it, there are more layers to it than what they say, it is very ironic.
In all just see this movie.