, this ethereal, spare sci-fi film was a deceptively weird little attempt at a blockbuster. Cruise plays the last human male left on an Earth that’s dying in the wake of an apocalyptic alien war. Comfortably ensconced in a Jetsons-like house in the sky, he’s watching over the planet while the rest of humanity migrates elsewhere in the galaxy – or so he thinks. It was marketed as a kick-ass action flick, but in reality, this is as much a melancholy, unsettling romance as it is an adventure.
— and watching the brash young movie star face off against the world-weary Newman, you start to wonder whether you might be watching a documentary.an Everyman? In Steven Spielberg's adaptation of H.G. Wells's classic alien invasion novel, Cruise plays a Jersey longshoreman and absentee father who has to flee the invaders from space. The early scenes are gritty and close to pathetic as we watch our hero try to be a dad.
can boast that they’re dropping their best installments six chapters in? How many movie stars can be asked why they insist on doing their own stunts andmake a good point”? If the latestwas nothing more than Tom Cruise trying to one-up himself yet again — this time by actually performing the High Altitude Low Opening skydive you see near the beginning of the movie — it’d still be a rush.
Nicole Kidman is terrific as Harford's mysterious wife; the two have very little chemistry together, but that too is part of the idea, it seems.
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