Independence Day is better

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2005)

War of the Worlds was not realistic enough to keep me interested. Obviously, the movie is meant to be fiction, but the least they could've done is stayed realistic within the fiction world they created in the movie. There are too many coincidental things happening to the family in this movie. I enjoy a good fantasy movie any day, but I just couldn't believe that things would've happened the way they did in this movie and it ruined my ability to enjoy the movie and enter the fiction world it created. In Independence Day, at least the President's wife dies and the plot is realistic within a world being attacked by aliens. When War of the Worlds ended, I was surprised it was over and was left feeling confused and disappointed. If you want to see a good alien movie, this is not the one to see. Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning are great, but the movie itself is really not worth watching. War of the Worlds would be a box office bomb and no one would give it a second look if the names Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise weren't associated with it.