As per the title- basically by about halfway though I was so bored by the story and so annoyed by the characters that I was rooting for the aliens to shoot the humans!
Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast play spoilt brats who instead of getting on with it spend most of their time onscreen being whinging about how unfair it is, and having domestics. That the only plot is said domestics doesn't help what could have been a great film.
The aliens are beautiful and well done, as are all the special effects and credit needs to be given to the cgi and design team. The rest of this film though really makes a mockery of this great storyline that was written in 1898, and that iconic radio play that was so convincing that many listeners took it to be news.
I have to wonder why they bothered- was it all just a big in-joke? "We haven't seen Tom Cruise for a while, lets put him in a alien film.. that'll be funny".
This was the dullest film I have seen in years, and with it's cop-out ending it deserves less than the 2 stars I've given it, but one of them is out of respect for the designers who have made some great wallpapers. ;)
Summary: Much nicer if you turn the sounds off... and skip the bits with humans in.
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