I liked it

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2005)

I read the book and thought he did a good job of applying it to our times as if to say, "What if..." Dakota Fanning was excellent as a terrified 10 year old. Tom Cruise captured the feeling of a parent trying to protect his children from the horrors of a world-wide catastrophe. The fact that he has children with bad attitudes is realistic and adds tension to what's going on around them. The battle scenes that Spielberg kept just out of our view were depicted well enough by seeing jeeps rolling down the hill on fire or the train on fire flying past the crowd. Your imagination took over from there, as it does when you read the book. I go to the movies for entertainment and I was entertained.