Too much Tom Cruise as hero vehicle

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2019)

Dakota Fanning takes over the helpless screamer role of Ann Robinson in the 1953 original, to most folks' annoyance. Enough CGI in the budget to finance another film. Cruise set up as a deadbeat dad to make the story "relevant." Yet, he rescues a group of humans about to become Martian victims. A lot of "too much" populates the movie. Death rays, giant alien ships, crazed people, terraforming, personality changes (bad dad to good dad). Superexpensive C- movie. Not awful. Just not awfully good.