Not even close...

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2005)

Great expectations... Er... the best summer sci-fi movie. And what we really have here? 1) I don't believe! Acting is like in the worst cheap TV soap. I don't believe in emotions that Cruise shows most of the time - especially in the beginning. 2) Only tripods and ULLA from the novel, the rest is a deja vu - mixture of several disaster and sci-fi movies of the 90ies.3) FX are not bad - but without the story in which we can believe - are just FX... Personally, I don't think that it was a good idea to use a family in the script - contrary to the novel and it makes little sense to do what they do.
PS. When the ferry scene just started I was hoping that there will come up a 21st century version of the Thunderchild. This could improve the scene and bring the flic closer to the novel - alas...