Magnificent.

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2006)

The imagery and graphics were fairly amazing- especially the scenes in the beginning when the aliens first emerged.
Dakota Fanning acted well in this film, and though sometimes her character screamed a little too often her behavior was pretty well scripted. Tom Cruise was simply brilliant, and, as he usually is, funny.
Justin Chatwin's character Robbie could be a little annoying, but since he didn't have much of a role in this overall film it was hard to judge whether his acting was good or bad. Like I said, too, if there was any bad acting we could blame the script more than Chatwin.
The overall story was done really well and realistically- especially the chaos ensuing. The end, however, left something to be desired. I felt like they could have explained things a little bit better than they did.
All in all, though, I loved the film and would definitely recommend it to other viewers.