another overblown and ridiculous film from spielberg

Rating: 2/10 (17 November 2005)

here we go again, Spielberg dishes up a half baked non-sensical film and critics and crowds go wild. there are so many major plot holes in this from start to finish that the whole film becomes a joke, for a start, by showing the events from an ordinary guy's point of view we are never in the action but always observing it from afar, our three lead characters are fairly boring and lack any charisma or sympathy. the son has to be one stupid kid to want to do the things he does, we last see him about to be blown up and lo and behold not only does he get to the grandparents house unscathed but it looks like its the only house not to have been touched by the tripods, also the mother and her parents are without a scratch. the whole film was just noise and bombast, oh and did i mention the mad tim robbins character who again has not purpose, and is rather mysteriously bumped off by cruise, why?? why indeed is the point of the film, everyone shoudl watch the excellent george pal version for real thrills and scares