good for a film with no plot

Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2005)

I saw war of the worlds last night and having never read the book can't comment on Spielberg's faithfulness to it. I was very enthralled by the movie for the majority with great special effects and good banter between cruise and his kids which gives humor to lighten the film up slightly.This was the best i have ever seen cruise, i feel it is his best role and he like his kids in the film do an excellent job of portraying the situation realistically, the script is good with good lines but what i found bizarre was the fact there was very little plot, i mean aliens arrive and start eliminating earth and cruise figures hell take his kids to Boston which of course will be safer than new york, even more annoying was the fact that it was safer and in fact almost undamaged by the aliens, his ex-wife's street is in pristine condition. It was a very good movie and i would recommend it just because seeing it in the theater is the only way to do the film justice and see it properly, but its just death, destruction and then Morgan freeman telling us what happened.