It's the film everybody hated the ending of when it came out, but are

there some redeeming qualities about Spielberg's alien epic? Nostalgia

Critic takes a look at Tom Cruise's, War of the Worlds.

War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action-thriller

film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David

Koepp, based on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds. Tom

Cruise stars in the main role alongside Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto,

and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman. It follows an

American dock worker who must look after his children, from whom he

lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite them with

their mother when extraterrestrials invade Earth and devastate cities

with giant war machines.

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