Cruise Control (Spoiler-Free)

[filkertom]

So, I just saw War of the Worlds. Not bad, not bad at all. Pretty good, in fact. Cruise does just fine +2, Dakota Fanning is excellent, Tim Robbins the same, SFX staggering (heh heh heh), Spielberg has either a few new tricks or a few new syntheses of the old ones, and it's got some scenes and shots that'll stay with you.

Anyone else seen it, or plan to? Let's keep this relatively spoiler-free.

Comments

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I would say so. I'm realizing that the biggest problem I have with it is that the characters are rather two-dimensional for the first fifteen, twenty minutes or so. They get better as things go to shit. And the spectacle -- along with the non-clarity of some of the SFX, which makes everything look that much more real -- really works on the big screen.