I agree with you Hrundi. Awesome movie and, as much as I can't stand Tom Cruise, he did a fine job in the lead role. Built and maintained suspense very well and, in my opinion, created the feeling of helplessness against a vastly superior foe.
Yes, the aliens did look a bit silly and, at the end, given the way they were vapourising people at the start, you'd make sure that they were well and truly dead before getting within a bulls roar of them, but very well done.
I went into this thinking the translation from Victorian England, as in the original story, to latter day America would make it a typical Hollywood macho movie, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Saw 'Little Fish' on the weekend. After all the reviewers talked up this movie, I found it very disappointing. Weak ending that didn't really convey anything. Excessive swearing, a lot of it unnecessary, odious characters with few redeeming features and a farcical love interest between Blanchett and Nguyen (don't know the actor's real name but he looked a good 10 years younger than her); I kept hoping that they would all overdose at the end of it. I wouldn't imagine that this would have done much for property values in Cabramatta either.
