Latest Spielberg spectacular a let down

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (Paramount, 24.95) is high on special effects, and with Tom Cruise in the lead role of a father determined to save his family from a Martian invasion, the drama should have lived up to its class billing.

Spielberg's sci-fi version of H G Wells' classic, however, falls a mite short of what you'd come to expect from the maestro, a tad heavy on special effects if you ask me, and short on plot delivery.