Wow!!! I wasn't expecting this

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2005)

I am writing this literally minutes after leaving the cinema.
I am a sucker for sci-fi. I had to see it and was expecting to bag the hell out of it all the way through. Having been a bit jaded by Spielberg's work of late, and not at all a Tom Cruise fan, I really wasn't expecting much from this film.
But Spielberg clearly still has the knack, he just hasn't used it in a while.
This film was GREAT!!!!!! It's seriously frightening, and keep you on the edge of your seat all the way through. Given that we are 107 years on from the book, it is still reasonably faithful to the themes. Tom Cruise is playing himself as usual but it fits in with this film. Dakota is great.
This is an exciting film, I highly recommend it.