a true waste of a great story

Rating: 1/10 (9 July 2005)

Had anyone involved with the story and its history read the book??? why did we need a screaming girl a surely boy and a wooden Tom Cruise? Speilburg too one of the great alien story's and turned it in to a not quite making it B grade film. H G Wells must be turning in his grave along with Orson Wells. While the aliens were well done and the creeping red plant was there they seemed to be in the background as just something for the girl to scream at and to fill in pauses when Tom Cruise was having a break.The work of done of the aliens in the basement was very well done and a few of the scenes of them stalking across the landscape were really the highlights of the movie. When will Hollywood learn that theses great stories should not be made to fit their scheme of how the public want to them to be seen bit follow the book as this is what the writers intended.Please someone stop them using Tom Cruise in movies!!!!