Stupid, Stupid, Stupid...looks like rip off of Independence Day

Rating: 2/10 (14 July 2005)

So it had some cool moments, it had some neat effects, but it was a terrible movie all together. I normally love Dakota Fanning as a young actress in every film she is in, but she is annoying in this. All she does is scream for most of the movie and about half way through you wish Cruise would just open the car door at max speed and throw her out. His son sucks plain and simple. He trys to make the character seem like the everyday American who would fight for his country no matter what,, but the problem is, is that you wish he would just be killed off quickly. The movie itself looks like Independence day all over again. I know that WoTW was originally made back in the 50's and i am sure that it was cool back then..but in 2005 its a overdone topic. We have had too many movies about invasion in the last 10 years that just like other war movies are just getting outdated and stupid. The aliens look almost exactly like the ones from Independence day, almost like they ran out of money and said "well at least we have the others in a closet somewhere in the warehouse so we can just use them." Cruise has been better as well, he is on screen the entire movie and just cannot cut it in my opinion to be THAT prominent as a the ONLY attraction to the movie. Tom Hanks did it great in Cast Away, but Tom Cruise is NO Tom Hanks..and this is coming from a Cruise fan. Seriously Tom..STAY AWAY FROM SCI FI!!!