Skirmish of the Worlds.

Rating: 6/10 (2 September 2005)

Intense theme, huge CGI effects, but the movie just felt empty on the whole. Maybe it was the fact that the running story followed a tired, typical family group and never really had any other focus. Maybe the said story moves along a bit too quickly, leaving some holes behind. Who knows? Still, as a summer movie, it makes with the eye-candy and provides us with some astonishing scenes of hostile alien chaos. Tom Cruise was pretty much his normal self but I'm sort of getting tired of seeing Dakota Fanning, what with her ringed, droopy eyes. Tim Robbins makes an appearance too, in a role that doesn't seem to suit him. Ah, what can you do?