It is better than they say.

Rating: 8/10 (23 November 2005)

I agree and disagree with the critique, most of those things i didn't even notice or they just don't matter. Once you go to the theater to watch it just for the action you don't pay attention to all those flaws because you are mesmerized by all the action and detail they put into the destruction.The whole basement bit i never even thought about why the tripods didn't attack it, that was actually funny once i read about it.But now once you know all the flaws of the movie it won't be as great. But if you watch the movie just for the bang and boom you won't care about the flaws or the family breaking apart, i really think its a lot better then that. I agree though that the movie would be much better if it was just tom cruise, it wouldn't waste as much time with the whole "you are a bad father and don't care about your kids" thing. On the other hand it gives you something to pay attention too, and in a lot of movies a stupid character to put waste too. Not in this movie though because they are the kids you just can't let them die. You have to bring back the dead, like when tom cruises son (in the movie) runs to fight the tripods ( who in their right mind would run into a burning battlefield to fight an army of 3 legged 200 ft. laser cannon robots) how could he possibly survive . But of course he does at the end of the movie you see him waiting at the only not destroyed house in the world.