The most realistic approach to an overused concept

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2010)

Episode #1 Of Lionheart490's IMDb Movie Reviews
If you are reading this, then you will know I am reviewing the 2005 Spielberg film, War of the Worlds. Based on the H.G. Wells novel, War of the Worlds tells the tale of how a man reacts to having eerie alien tripods invade the Earth and go exterminating the human race like cockroaches with a laser gun. Now that concept has been used many times and it is now considered cliché. Yet this movie approaches this concept as if it could actually happen, and if you think about it, it could actually happen.
Tom Cruise plays Ray, a father who doesn't have a good relationship with his kids and his wife, has to babysit his teenage son, played by Justin Chatwin, and his bratty five-year old daughter, played by Dakota Fanning. Some strange weather occurs, which foreshadows the arrival of alien tripods that has been beneath the earth for millenniums waiting to come out and harvest the humans to a strange red weed. Wow, such a complex yet thought-out strategy. Anyway, when the aliens come out, they look bad-ass, walking stiff and slow for suspense and omitting an infamous sound that will foreshadow your demise. The actually aliens don't come from Mars, but some weird galaxy in the dark dimensions (or something like that) and they don't look that unique but for some reason remind me of the Cloverfield monster.
Overall, this film is incredibly underrated, people compare it to the 1950s film, yet the movie makes you feel like you're in the situation that the characters are in. That is the work of great film-making. It is highly recommended. WAR OF THE WORLDS, A GREAT SPIELBERG FILM AND A GREAT ADAPTION OF THE H.G. WELLS NOVEL. I GIVE IT A 9/10