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Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a divorced dockworker with few skills as a father. Ray's ex-wife (Miranda Otto) drops off their teenage son Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and 10-year old daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) for a weekend visit with their father in New Jersey. Ray is a self-absorbed individual who feels imposed upon by having to baby sit his own children. Then something happens that will change their entire lives. An unusual and violent lightning storm hits the town. In the intersection down the street, Ray sees a huge three-legged war machine rise from beneath the street. The machine begins to fire and incinerate everything and everybody. The Martians have begun the war by attacking Earth with only one goal in mind, destroying everything in sight.