[WorkingClassFilth]

I know this. The film sucked for many reasons other than Well's ideological ignorance.

[Borges]

People are focusing too much on Cruise and his family. This movie is a throwback to stuff like Duel. No one complained that you didn't get to know Desnnis Weaver's family there. Or that you never find out why The birds were attacking in The Birds.

If there was ever a Director-is-the-Star movie this is one. That shot of the train going by with the cabins on fire and the little girl standing at the backs of a river with the bodies floating by was poetry. Not to mention the almost nonsetp tension of the first hour. Forget Cruise! :-)