Absolutely awful....

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2005)

........I begrudge having to spend too much of my time commenting on this terrible film, but feel I must warn you - quite simply a tragic effort at a supposedly tragic storyline.
Less than mediocre performances from Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning but worse than this is Spielberg's conveyance of H.G. Wells' classic. The special effects do nothing to drag the movie out from underground where in my opinion it should be buried with the Martian machines.
As far as stirring emotions goes, the world scale disaster and human need for survival did cause a passing feeling of sickness, however this was soon diminished by the fact that if you're Tom Cruise, the killer beam always seems to pass you by.....hmmm.
Don't waste your time.