Scary, Very Scary, but not great.

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2007)

I was told that this film was terrifying, and to a point it is. They got the machines and creatures right, and Morgan Freeman's narration was excellent. The broken home family/children with attitude thing has been so overdone though that it was an actual distraction from the story and not helpful to the plot line. Why is it that we cannot have a family that actually loves one another struggling together to overcome the situation. And I am sorry, but as much as I have enjoyed Tom Cruise in many films, the same old cockiness of his character in this one just brings down the mood of the film. I felt no sympathy for the characters and found myself actually rooting for the aliens before it was over. The one thing I did enjoy were the cameo appearances of the grandparents. Sorry but I liked to 1953 version better.