Worst Spielberg film of all time

Rating: 1/10 (24 July 2007)

I cannot imagine that Steven Spielberg was in his right state of mind when making this film. The original movie was a classic, and you would have expected that if any movie director could pull of a great modern version, it would be Spielberg. Instead all you get is a mindless waste of time. For those of you who want to say that this film more closely represented the book, I would ask why it had a divorced, dysfunctional, foul mouthed father as the lead character? Why were there references to terrorists in the film? Were these things in keeping with the book? The premise was also absurd that machines could have been planted underground ages ago for some future destruction of the planet. How did we never accidentally discover these huge machines? Why not attack us all those ages ago when we were less able to protect ourselves? And most importantly, if simple germs ultimately kill the Martians, how did it not kill them originally when they planted these machines ages ago? I like good Sci-Fi films, and enjoy Spielberg's work, but this film was absolutely horrible other than some of the special effects. Unless Spielberg has lost his touch and this movie is the beginning of the end of his career, I suspect it will go down as the worst movie he will ever produce!