What a terrible film

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2005)

The problems with this movie have nothing to do with the time period or the strays away from the book. It comes from the HUGE plot holes in the film.

If an EMP takes out everything electronic, how does that one guy manage to film the tripod coming out of the ground on his DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA?! (granted, we can just call this an oversight, but really, come on Steve) - The biggest and worst plot hole comes from the end. Boston is a large metropolitan city, and the tripods were there. So how come Roy's ex-wife and her family are all looking like they just got done having tea? The tripods lay waste to all of metropolitan New York in a matter of hours, why is Boston special? Their street is perfectly fine, they are all dressed nice, WTF?!! The last scene of the movie would have played out a lot better if it had been placed in a smaller city, one that the tripod's probably wouldn't have bothered with so quickly.

I thought that the special effects were great, but if you're going to do a movie on tripods, do a better story (The Day the Tripods Came, The White Mountains, etc.), or just think about this before you throw millions of dollars into a disappointing film