Dakota Fanning's CONSTANT Screaming RUINS the movie

Rating: 5/10 (30 June 2005)

Dakota Fanning RUINED the movie. Her constant Bug Eyed SCREAMING/Shrieking should be edited out. That and the forced multisyllablic dialog she had to be force fed, and she purges, almost frothing at the mouth. I must ADMIT... The visuals are okay, the sound effects are excellent. However, I would rather watch the movie with the sound muted, and have to read subtitles rather than endure her hysterical screaming, which is pretty much constant. Tom Cruise is his usual self, FLAT. Just like in real life, he is kind of a rabid squirrel with a Patty Hearst type message. Tim Robbins shows his true side, a crazy bedbug who does not know when to keep his mouth shut. It's a good movie overall... If only, they had let all the lead characters be devoured by aliens. It does make you realize that most people are generally helpless, utterly useless (in a crisis), and act like frightened lemmings. For a shorter and more plausible film: Get a couple of good olde boys to rig up some trip wires, onto some land mines, a finish the job with a few flame throwers, that way the movie would have been less predictable. Compared to "Independence Day," WOTW sucks.