Huge deception

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2005)

I was really looking forward to this! I generally love films by Spielberg, but in this case I had no idea what to expect (I could have of course prepared by at least reading about this War of the Worlds story).. It turned out as a huge disappointment.
The story starts of really coming off as another real American family film with the same old traditional divorced guy having to take care of his little ones, just at the point in eternity that Aliens are bound to take over the world.
I should say there's some good socio-psychological stuff in this movie; I mean I think the people reactions are quite realistic and especially America's military forces reactions, all fighting back, quite realistic but it's saddening to see how chance less all countermeasures are. It keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse and just when you think the world is doomed and Aliens will successfully destruct our planet this really lame ending comes up.. the surprise is enormous the moment the narrator started talking, I really did not expect this film to end, especially in this way corny fashion..