Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (24 June 2005)

I enjoyed this movie, however, I felt it was nothing more than a modernized remake of "The War of the Worlds" from 1953 starring Gene Barry. Many of the plot themes in both movies are similar, if not the same. There is the issue of atomic weapons which is the same in both movies. The results were identical. The issue of the common cold in the 1953 movie has been replaced with a computer virus in Independence Day. I hope the 2005 version of "War of the Worlds" backs me up and that people who never saw the 1953 movie won't think that the new "War of the Worlds" is a remake of Independence Day, which, of course, it isn't.