Quite disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (1 July 2005)

Fanning out-acted Cruise, Ha.I gave it a 5 rating for one of the best disintegration scenes i've ever seen. But only 10 minutes of it? Come on.This was supposed to be War of the Worlds, meaning near annihilation.This movie gave us 20 minutes of destruction tops. Regardless of who the actors are in a movie, the real stars should always be the Aliens, or the disaster itself in a disaster movie. The actors should be the supporting cast against the real star of the movie... Destruction and battle scenes.I despise real-life war but love sci-fi war movies. I was expecting a movie that would be on par with the first two Alien or first two Terminator movies. Independence Day offered a lot more action despite the weak acting than did War of the Worlds. I am being this critical because this was a Spielberg movie and was far beneath his potential.The Drama does not compare with Schindlers List and the action does not compare with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not even a good nuke scene thrown in. Maybe this movie was supposed to be anti-war but it still needed more combat scenes. If completely redoing a movie than at least have the tripods flanked with some type of airships laying waste on a grand scale on entire cities that the AUDIENCE can see, not just watch on a news camera. Please, no more movies focusing on one family for 90 min with 15 min of special effects in a sci-fi alien disaster movie simply because it has a big name actor. I was also expecting a few Zerglings with all the creep around there.
Thrakkorzog would have asked for his money back.