War of the Worlds is Extremely disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (4 July 2005)

The movie on a whole deviated from H.G. Wells story on a completely different tangent. The ending of the movie leaves too many questions in the viewers mind as it is very abrupt. Linking the movie to themes similar to Schindlers List and to those of the attacks during 9/11, simply point to the fact that Spielberg distorted such a great story according to his cultural and geographical background. Its a shame that such masterpieces written by notable authors such as Wells are allowed to be torn down by people such as Spielberg. The cast in the film seemed to be falling apart as Dakota Fanning has outgrown her cute childish state in life and now sounds like a broken record which has simply gone on for too long. I truly hope that she resumes life as a kid and takes on school on a full-time basis, so as to safe viewers from her irritating acting.
Spielberg's attempt to make Tom Cruise seem like your average American with a broken up family was also remarkably daft as the actor seemed like a complete hobo. On one side the character works in a shipping port moving containers, which in reality pays good money, but Tom Cruise in this role still could not manage to take a shower and wear clothes from this decade.
Anyhow, I have already wasted two hours of my life on this failure of a movie and would like to get on with my life. For God's sake if you have not seen this movie, do not waste your time and money to watch this movie. It should be shelved and locked for the rest of time, so as to safeguard the rest of the world.