Just another remake that fails...

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2015)

No matter how many times I try to like this, it just isn't happening. Perhaps it is the miscasting. Just like Keanu Reaves should never have been in The Day The Earth Stood Still, Tom Cruise ultimately was a dud in this remake.
Perhaps it was the cut and paste feel to this version of a classic SciFi thriller. In the original 60's movie, Gene Barry was an astrophysicist yet Stephen S. decided to make Tom C. a dock worker with an attitude? They lost a lot of credibility right there. Sure, some of the plot elements parallel the original but not quite enough. The story line just didn't have the same feel of tension and fear, or at least the changes did not carry the same "grab you" aura. I'm just losing interest in all these classic remakes that fall flat. Some liked it I guess, to have managed a 6.4 average.