Fairly good, but some bad casting....

Rating: 4/10 (25 November 2005)

For the past hour about, I have been watching The War of the Worlds. Now I just can't get this off my chest... Tom Cruise does a fairly good job on this film, and is able to pull off a regular father caught in a crisis. The son does a good job too, pulling off just the right amount of teenage angst and acting into one. What makes this movie entirely unwatchable for me is Dakotah Fanning. Many of you that have watched the movie already know what I am talking about. Dakotah Fanning was the worst choice for the girl part in the movie. The only thing she seems talented at in this film is screaming at the top of her lungs about nothing. Now, this part was made to be kind of like that. But she doesn't pull off anything endearing, or something that would let viewers see the merit in her cries. All she manages to pull off is crying and screaming and, to be truthful, just being a little pain in the... Compare her to Drew Barrymore in E.T. and her other childhood movies. Drew carries a charisma makes her more likable for us. Dakotah can't seem to find that feeling anywhere, in any of her movies. I can't even watch the rest of this movie, because she ruins it so terribly. Do yourself a favor and go buy another movie besides this one.