Really worth seeing.

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2005)

If this were released in 1953 it would have given new meaning to the rating system, (G, PG13, etc). The acting was very good. Dakota, the girl that played the daughter, really stoled the show. I used to get nightmares as a kid from the aspects of movies like War of the Worlds, The Blob and Dr Who and the Daleks (1963, I hope they redo it), the whole aspect of the world being invaded by creatures from another planet really did not come to me as that unbelievable. Then life happened, I get night mares from it now. And now the same story this well done will be influencing my dreams with the same cast of characters (three legged creatures from another planet) coming to take over.
Suppliment
I notice that a lot of people have comment about how bad this movie is and the flat acting of Mr. Cruise. I have even read some people tell Mr. Spielberg to stick to the story line. For the situation, aside from sometimes thinking Dakota's screaming was a bit loud, everyone acted just fine. It was their character. I would like very much to know how a lot of other people would have handled themselves. The movie did have a few question mark items, like how the hell did they find a working vehicle so quickly. That and how some cameras worked while other things didn't. I firmly believe that the items that didn't work stopped working because they were on, the vehicles in the middle of the street, watches, etc, the SUV they found worked because it was parked and off when the attack happened. As for the story line I believe the original "War of the Worlds" like "Wizzard of Oz" appeared in newspapers as a story that people followed for kicks, sort of like a comic strip. There have been different versions of each book available for reading due to the editing differences of those that decided to join all the daily/weekly episodes together. The movie stuck to Mr. Wells' original thesis of a man running for his life, I read the book, it is sort of slow, really. But when it was originally written if the author was to be able to bring to words what was in the latest movie... But while everyone speaks vividly of the special effects and plot lines, no one has yet made a statement of the people being struck by the beams coming from the ship. That was a really cool effect, but probably already used in another movie.