Awful, awful, awful...

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2015)

I was just after watching Mission Impossible 2 for the umpteenth time, was curious as to its IMDb rating, and was shocked when I noticed that WOTW is rated higher - how can seemingly-rational people rate this POS higher then MI2??? Some reviewers here actually rated this at 8-stars - which is frankly absurd!
As a huge fan of Jeff Wayne's WOTW musical (which I bought on cassette-tapes way back then) I was curious to see how Spielberg would portray the simplistic WOTW premise to a 21'th century audience. He failed - HUGE!!! This is a real turkey of a film, pure and simple! If there were ever Spielberg-sycophants that thought his 'genius' could do no wrong, well, this movie disproves that notion.
Yet, it's rated higher than MI2 - go figure! I have a theory though - these absurdly-high ratings for mediocre films are generally from people, who after watching it at a movie theater, feel compelled to justify to themselves the admission-fee by awarding it a high-rating. Nothing else makes sense.
Apart from the special-effects, this movie is awful.