Movie Review: War of the Worlds: B minus

As another reviewer has said, "War of the Worlds" is three quarters of a great movie. The special effects are the best I've ever seen, and the script and acting are pretty good too for a sci-fi/action film. Unfortunately, the movie uses H.G. Wells' original ending (or at least what I understand to be the ending -- I've never read it), so it just sort of peters out in a very anticlimactic way. I guess it works for a novel, but not for a movie.

Spielburg's sappiness is pretty much under control, and Tom Cruise even seemed less objectionable than usual. (I think that if synthetic humans from the future walk among us today, one of them is probably Tom Cruise).