As entertaining as arguing with your family

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2005)

Half of the movie Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) needs to drag his two kids around while they are either screaming, accusing him for being a bad dad or in all possible ways trying to sabotage his efforts in keeping them alive.
This becomes very annoying, and personally I lost all sympathy for the main characters. A great opportunity to remake a spectacular science fiction movie turns into some kind of half hearted soap opera about a dysfunctional family.
I actually eventually found myself hoping the machines would blast the kids away to get on with the action.
As you can expect from a movie who can afford paying Tom Cruise's ludricous salaries, the special effects are top notch. Any mediocre actor could have delivered the same acting performance though, and frankly Tom Cruise looks more like a sad middle aged man now, just a shadow of the sex symbol he once was.
All in all a disappointing movie, that could have been so great, but sadly is not...