One of the best yet!!!

Rating: 9/10 (3 July 2005)

Now with all the hype about Tom Cruise being a psycho these days, he really managed to once again pull off a great movie! Ignore all the people who bashed this just cause of him and Steve-o. This was one of the best movies I have ever seen, the effects were amazing, the CGI was well utilized, but yet not overdone; at times you couldn't even tell it was CGI. Tom, Dakota, and Robbins' performances were wonderful. Sure most of the movie involves Dakota crying and/or screaming, but it is the subtleties of the rest of it that she pulls off so well, truly showing how badly a divorce, and having a deadbeat father does to a young girl, and how her brother is her only safety net in life... Amazing for an 11 year old. I laughed, I cried a little, I sat wide-eyed a lot, and I loved every minute of it!!! There was one sequence in particular that really affected me deeply, showing a very poetic mirror of a soldier left alone on the battlefield walking home through his comrades own blood... Amazing cinematography!! You only see what the family sees, and it adds to the suspense cause you really don't know what the hell is going on at all until its all over, leaving you to have to back track and think if any of it was even real...