This looks and feels like a bad "B" movie from the 50's...

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2007)

It seems it is absolutely forbidden to criticize Hollywood's 'holy cows' nowadays, hence all the positive reviews for this film. Well, thank god for Ebert this time! He seems to be (almost) the only one with enough guts to say the truth about this film, which is simply: this movie sucks! If I hadn't seen it for myself, I would never have believed that Spielberg is capable of making such a bad movie (after having made 'Minority Report' to make something like this...).
The only thing that was good in this film was Dakota Fanning's performance together with (partly) Tim Robbins. Everything else will very soon be forgotten. The plot is preposterous, the storyline impossible, completely unbelievable, and the ending even more so. Tom Cruise is, like the movie itself, very close to the realm of the ridiculous (he was rightly nominated for a Razzie award as worst actor, but on the contrary of course, the Academy had the bad taste to nominate the film for three Oscar awards...). I have read comic books much more complex and believable than this film!