Synopsis
It starts in New York, with a dockworker Ray Ferrier(Tom Cruise). He comes off as a bit of an overgrown adolescent. He is cocky and arrogant at work, despite his low position. He is divorced and has his son and daughter for the weekend. The meetings with the mother don't go well, and the impression is that only the daughter wants to be there. When he awakens from a nap he finds that there is very strange weather. After lightening strikes the same place repeatedly he goes out to see what happened. That is where the tripod rises and starts killing. He then must grab his family and make a mad dash for his ex wife's in boston.
