Oh good Lord...

Rating: 4/10 (1 July 2005)

Disappointing..OK
OK, what sane father would put their child in danger in the first place by standing out side to watch a wild storm blow over where lighting bolts are striking no further than 100 yards away, if it wasn't for the daughter's wise words "Daddy lets go"..."This is too much fun" Cruise would have stayed and watched, at one point he even insisted that they did. Imagine that the daughter telling the adult how to behave. (shameful).
Than we have the electricity stopping, yet ppl have cameras and camcorders and that car Tom was driving miraculously worked everyone else's didn't, how? Only Spielberg knows? *rolls eyes* And another thing that p'ed me of, while that insane mechanic was yelling at Tom to get out the car, he never noticed trees or things being blown up around him?? I mean come on, a fire ball isn't like a spider running past, it would make noise yet he ignored it and continued to talk about wanting the car back, till his ass was zapped, and he didn't even notice that coming!! And the scene in the ex wife house...pathetic...no way would half the house be blown off, including aeroplanes crash but a little van outside of the house remains untouched...just SO stupid.(how coincidental its there get away car before and after.) And the children Vs Daddy storyline, I mean COME ON!! At a time like that, you think such a petty family squabble would be their main concern? *Toms outburst "dont call me ray" and the son "dont dumb us on mommy" * thing was a bit way off focus. I think Movies need to be more realistic these days, think, how would you react if the world was being destroyed by 2oo feet tripods? I mean honestly, family values wouldn't be my main concern, at all. Getting my *** saved would be.
And then we come to the ridiculous father and son scene, where Cruise stupidly makes his daughter wait under a tree (While Tripods are stomping on everything, he turns his back on her) to convince his son to forget joining the already losing military, with which he failed as his ever so "I want to do this" son runs off anyway. And guess what? The tripods destroy the area where his son ran off to a minute after Tom had left him, but somehow he survived (?) I mean all of the military guys die BUT he (the son) survives. Miliatry men who would have been trained in dangerous situations drenched in weapons, protective gear and tanks couldn't survive but a 16 year old boy with NO KNOWLEDGE on escape situations (just instinct) survives. And i mean he survived a huge BIG blow up, like that would ever happen? And you know what makes this even more ironic?? He somehow makes it to Boston before his dad, even though the alien had completely annihilated that area. I find that impossible that he walked from NY to Boston and survived, especially with those vicious tripods at toe.Just pathetic, remember a this guys about sixteen years old.
And then we come to the basement scene, where the aliens were permanently obsessed with stalking it, even though they found no life there the first time they take a second visit (For god knows what reason). Even in a group.*rolls eyes*. Then the part where Cruise kills off Robbins character, how pathetic, instead of it being realistic where a normal person would go crazy and hit out of impulse, he builds it up. Which is fake, because someone whose prepared to kill (by telling his daughter to close her eyes) would hardly feel remorse after. And on that same note, was there really a need to kill him anyway? Why not knock him out? Then the part where he gets put in a cage with other civilians, I, too like others have commented find it bizarre that they (the civilians)only help out Tom and not the other victims that were swallowed by the giant gut. And with one hand holding the people and the other in the "gut's" mouth how the hell did he get the chance to pull the grenade? I mean seriously. With one hand he couldn't devise in his head to do all that and chuck it at the same time of being swallowed, it would all be too much for the brain to comprehend, a brain can only think of one thing at one time and that thing normally the thing thats occurring at the time, not what it can do after? if you catch my drift.
And the ending almost made me carry out my deed of cutting my wrists, I mean they walk from NYC to Boston which is fake enough but then they get there and everything is fine, I mean apart from a few cars ruffled there were No cracks on the ground where the tripods were supposedly sleeping for many many years. The houses were untouched and the thing that ticked me off (apart from the awaiting son, that survived a nuclear bomb) was the ex wife, running out like a character from Cinderella, I mean the world was just nearly destroyed but yet the mother, her parents and her fiancé (or what not) survived without a scratch, not a scratch, I mean the face was soap clean, whereas Crusie and co looked like they've been dragged through mud and ash.
And the aliens dying from bacteria? Lets get real.