horrible, horrible, awful, awful.

Rating: 1/10 (23 November 2005)

in the afterlife don't tell H.G. Wells about this horrid, untasteful, pitiful, excruciatingly horrible, did I say horrible, movie. This is a disgrace to the whole history of cinematography. Please don't watch it, just watch the Three Stooges instead. The plot was horrible, Tom Cruise was awful, his son's character incredibly dull, Dakota fanning OK, but the rest of the movies was just painful to watch, I even started eating sunflower seeds to get rid of the pain as I was watching it. the special effects were so so, the plot so simple it was like a third grader's homework patched up by a forth grader. the whole movie just did not make sense. the final lines of the movie that summed the whole theme of the movie, if Spielberg had just put them on the screen for two hours it would make a better movie than what I saw. I usually don't criticize movies this way, but this was enough. After watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind and this movie back to back I just started to wonder that Spielberg's talent is downhill. He just should have stopped with Schindler, because everything since, with minor disruptions with Minority Report is just flashy thrash. The soundtrack was a disaster. Cinematography had its moments but overall was poor. Even Scientology can not help Tom Cruise with his awful performance (I still think his appearance in Magnolia was his best role). Somebody needs to tell Cruise's son's character in that movie to think about changing professions, get a singing job or something, cause the kid can't act, not that I can, but nobody pays 8 bucks to watch me on the screen. In short stay away from this brainless film.