Steven Spielberg directs Tom Cruise in a present day retelling of the classic HG Wells story.
This is one of the best films I have seen. It had me fixed from start to finish and the acting is brilliant. This film will not disappoint!
One of the better remakes - Tom Cruise is very good and the effects are very good.
When I first heard they were remaking this movie,with Tom Cruise as the star and Steven Spielberg as the director I thought wow this is going to be great but it was not.The acting was ott,there was no start to the movie and when it finish I said is that it.I thought the original was alot better than this farce.
I must admit that I had been waiting in anticipation for Spielbergs new slant on the War of the Worlds....aliens planning the attack for millions of years...hiding tripods in the earth etc, but I felt overall a little let down. Ok the main characters have changed to a single father with problem kids and a wife with "new husband", but we see this sort of family every day in a number of films and it ruined the film. It took away the main theme of "humanity" trying to survive. Other than that there were very few surprises. There is no doubting the special effects are superb and the audio is awesome, but it doesn't make up for the predictability of the film, which I am afraid is not as good as the the 1950's version.
Disappointing to say the least. I wanted to be wowed & dumbstruck by the spectacle of this film but instead was left with an empty feeling and the antisceptic blues.
There is no doubt that the set-pieces are great and Spielberg's bravado shines through here. But what part of America is this? How can an angry throng of Yanks go weak at the knees at the sight of a gun, let alone nobody else have one?!? Unintentionally funny.
We all had an idea of the general plot, but Cruise's rentakit family (good looking but underachieving & selfish dad, precocious daughter & sulky son - sigh) simply stumble from one set-up to the next and you end up ticking them off rather than being able to get involved with the story.
And why show the aliens half way through? And for comic effect at that? Where are the scares and creepiness that should surround the story? Nowhere I'm afraid - it's almost as though this film needed to be aimed at a younger audience to drag as much money in as possible.... hmmmmm ... surely not, he wouldn't compromise his vision like that would he....
My apologies if I am painting this all in a bad light, but when a film is such a let down, so soulless and devoid of anything interesting then what more can you do?
And dont even get me started on the 9/11 references that are painted all across the film with a VERY big brush....sigh.
What a cracking film! I was absorbed from start to finish. The film has a number of good twists to keep the audience interested. Tom Cruise stars, but he is NOT the hero. Instead he is a victim of circumstances. The attempts to escape by Cruise and his two offspring lead us through a world at risk and with no answer, as conventional weapons are useless against the machines. Tom Cruise is also powerless to stop them "taking over the world". It is only a quirk of nature that finally prevents this Armageddon! (You need to see the film or read the book - I do not want to spoil the ending).
The film's special effects are great and director, Steven Spielberg, builds up a wonderfully bleak landscape against which Cruise and his family dodge the machines. Dakota Fanning is superb as Cruise's wide-eyed and frightened daughter, while Tim Robbins puts in a wonderful cameo as a crazed ex-veteran hiding from the machines and planning ways of fighting them.
Spielberg has managed to breathe life into a story that has been filmed on cinema and TV (not forgetting Orson Welles' radio masterpiece) many times before. A must for science fiction fans, but also a great movie for a wider audience.
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Big-budget adaptation of the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, directed by Steven Spielberg. Divorced father of two Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is looking after his children - uncommunicative Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and precocious Rachel (Dakota Fanning) - while his ex-wife Mary (Miranda Otto) goes to Boston for the weekend. After violent electrical storms start breaking out across the world, Ray goes to investigate the results of a lightning strike further down his block, only to witness a vast armoured machine break out of the ground and start laying waste to everything in its path. Fleeing New Jersey with his children, Ray begins a horrific journey through an America gripped by panic as the alien war machines start to systematically wipe out mankind. While the hot-headed Robbie soon leaves, determined to join in with whatever resistance is possible, Ray must get young Rachel to Boston to be with her mother. On the way he is forced to take shelter with paranoid survivor Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), whose gradual mental breakdown threatens to reveal the hidden family to the aliens nearby...
War Of The Worlds (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005] [DVD] [DVD] (2005) Tom Cruise
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