This movie is WAY overrated

Rating: 5/10 (9 July 2005)

The film is entertaining, but is also very silly. Tom Cruise overacts (again) and isn't believable as a lousy father with principles. Also, the depiction lacked believability. It was hard to suspend disbelief throughout this science fiction story. How can an airplane destroy an entire neighborhood, yet miss the one car they need to escape? Stupid mistakes like this abound in the picture. It felt like a lazily-done and hackneyed story. Other examples like the entire 20 minute sequence with Tim Robbins could have (should have) been eliminated entirely. The movie also wraps itself up much too quickly and is all TOO tidy to be believable. Gets only an average rating by me.