Reviews of War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds review

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago on 12 October 2007 02:03 (A review of War of the Worlds)

Pretty crud. Not much else to say about this one. Poor acting by Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning annoyys the hell out of me sometimes. I mean couldn't they have chosen someone else?? All she does for the whole movie is scream and perhaps says a few lines ..but mostly she just screams.

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War of the Worlds review

Posted : 2 years, 9 months ago on 11 February 2007 08:19 (A review of War of the Worlds)

As a big fan of both the original book and even the musical score, I found myself highly disappointed by this film. I knew I was in trouble from the off, when I realised that it wasn't even set in England. Ok, I thought, England always gets overlooked for hollywood adaptations, but maybe it will still be ok.

But no. Aside from all of the flaws mentioned in a previous review, I was utterly astonished to find that these aliens were transported to earth into pre-built tripod machines. What a ridiculous concept! One of the main themes of the book is how life on Earth continued as normal whilst the alien race went about slowly building their killing machines. These tripods were also impervious to attacks because they were covered with a forcefield. What nonsense! The human race takes out several tripods in the book, it gives humanity a sense of hope.

Oglivy was a mishmash of different characters which was just one big mistake and the actual aliens themselves were lithe and nimble creatures, instead of the pulsating, uncomfortable, bear-sized masses that they are originally described as being in the novel.

I understand that they had to try and touch a few things up to make this film more modern, but the end result left me wondering: Why bother?

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Typical Hollywood Trash

Posted : 3 years, 1 month ago on 24 October 2006 08:48 (A review of War of the Worlds)

Hollywood Blockbusters like this are main reason why I find myself looking more for independent releases. This movie had so much potential because it had an excellent book to back it as well as Spielberg, but two things ruined it: Tom Cruise, and major plot holes.

-Why did camcorder still work after electo-magnetic blast took out everything else?
-How come only Tom Cruise's mechanic (and entire army) are only people that knew how to fix cars after the electro-magnetic blast?
-Why do people run in straight lines down the road when being chased by alien spider-bots?
-How come a crashed airliner managed to take out the entire neighborhood, but the holy minivan didnt even get a scratch?
-The world is ending, everyone you know is dead, so why is everyone walking calmly in large groups to unknown destination without panic?
-Tom Cruise is the only one in a large US crowd with a gun? come on.

Then my brain really started hurting, so i just couldnt comprehend the rest, or even TRY to explain it. red stuff everywhere? then some typical army rah-rah stuff, then something about a pedophile, then humans being harvested, then you have the cheezy ending of re-uniting loves ones (i guess Boston didnt get attacked since everyone was still at home) and to wrap up the invasion story-line, something about birds killing the aliens.

Ah well, at least they didnt upload a virus via USB port of an Apple laptop, like they did in Independence Day. LOL.


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