A film of two halves!!!

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2005)

War of the Worlds starts out great - it's exciting, intriguing, things are happening and happening fast - but then as soon as Tim Robbins enters the movie everything just becomes stale. It begins to turn into another type of movie entirely and a far less exciting one at that. Something good the second half did contain (as well as the first) was an outstanding performance from the young Dakota Fanning. The movies special effect, it must be said, are pretty special but another thing which lets it down is the confusion of the storyline. The end might as well have been in French it was that confusing.
My recommendation - watch the movie until Tim Robbins comes into then leave and check out what happened later on an IMDb message board.