This movie sucked - War of the Worlds Reviews

This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I feel like Ned Beatty in Deliverance. Save your money and rent Jaws.

Dakota was terrible - War of the Worlds Reviews

I can't believe all of the hype over Dakota in this movie. If she was playing a three to four year old, maybe I could've put up with her lame shrieking for the whole movie. I blame the acting, casting and direction for making me listen to her annoying screams for too long. I thought Tom Cruise did a good job acting: he was believable even though everything else was so far-fetched. When the best special effects in an alien attacking the world movie is when a high speed train passes by while on fire, don't waste your money to see it in a theater. This is definitely a movie you could wait to see on your smallest tv at home when there's nothing better to watch.

Critics are bought off. - War of the Worlds Reviews

Wow, what a disappointment! Critics had given this movie a great rating. Why did I even consider the critics thoughts on a movie is beyond me. I have never agreed with the critics and this movie is a perfect example. Tom's acting was not believeable. The scenes were not believeable, and the story was not believeable. The military fighting the envaders was close to nill and the aliens use of humans to spray on the Earth has laughable. Please, save your money and turn on the TV. At least with the TV you can get up and leave without losing your money.

Who is drinking kool-aid - War of the Worlds Reviews

This movie was bad - just plan bad...117 minutes of litening the the little brat scream and then go to her "circle of trust" come one give me a break. The scripted was just plan bad - if I were speilberg I would not have my name associated with this movie. it was like the went full on for 115 minutes the ended in the last 2. Spielberg could have saved 2 hours out my life by just have Morgan Freeman just speak the begining and ending naration and be done... If I knew what i know now about the movie I would have gladly paid 12 bucks to get in just to get 2 hours of my life back...

Snap... crackle... flop! - War of the Worlds Reviews

This movie has more holes in it than a slice of swiss cheese! It was truely dissapointing. But honestly, you had to expect it. The way Tom's been using his personal life to gain free media attention for the movie... the onslaught of advertising... the shill reviews flooding this forum. All fingers point to a desperate push for a big opening weekend. Those in charge know this blockblunder won't make ticket sales past week one. It's all quite sad, this movie had SO much potential.

Holmes dumps cruise after seeing the movie - War of the Worlds Reviews

Terrible! Absolutely the worst movie I have seen since Hudson Hawk. Where to begin? Tom Cruise has lost his mind. That weird vibe he had when he went on Oprah - he had the same thing in the movie. Maybe Cruise is still in character. Dakota Fanning - if staring straight ahead and screaming are the keys to being a good child actor, then she is gonna be a star. Hopefully, Cruise didn't transfer his weird Scientology obsession to poor Dakota. Cruise's son - I would never hit a kid - except maybe this one. He is the one who beat out 5,000 other kids for this part? Isn't Tobey Maguire free? Plot - the original was fine. I even like the idea of focusing on one family but does it have to be a disfunctional one? I could visit my family if I wanted to see that. Special effects - nothing special. Looked like the cutting room floor stuff from Minority Report. Overall - Every 2 or 3 movies Tom does a real stinker (Magnolia, Legend, Cocktail). So I guess for every Top Gun or Last Samurai we have to suffer through a War of the Worlds.

All down hill after first 20 minutes - War of the Worlds Reviews

I came to this movie expecting an action pack thriller. The movie gets right into the story and you think it is going to be a great movie, I mean it directed by Steven Speilberg, was I wrong to expect something with more depth? However I quickly realized that the characters petty and just plain dumb fighting with eachother takes away from the movie, and it is more of that than aliens and story. The whole movie they are trying to get to boston, where somehow it is safe there when the whole world is being destroyed. Anyways you dont see much of the aliens and the movie only shows the tripod things that they use. All in all this movie was a waste of my money, and I would recommend seeing Batman instead