War of the Worlds or War of the Blended Family?

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2005)

I expected a bit more from the Cruise/Spielberg camp, but all in all a worthy effort. I spent a lot of time wanting to see more interactions between the humans and aliens and a lot less of Ray (Tom Cruise) arguing with his kids. OK, Ray is a bad father, we get it!!! Can we get back to the aliens please? I kept waiting for the big BAM! moment and it never really came. What happened? Yes, Ray is developing that natural human instinct to protect his offspring, congrats, but umm, the aliens? Where are they? The movie does a great job regarding human character/behavior in a crisis situation. The scene with the car is a great example. Like I said, a worthy effort, but they didn't knock it out of the park this time.