Another classic from Spielberg's creative palm of hand.

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2005)

first of all, i would just like to point out that i saw the ''war of the worlds'' classic (1953) and it was really good (by that i mean as for a classic...).
unlike the original 1953 picture (which had a few stories in it)... in this particular piece, Spielberg gives the audience a taste of what a real alien invasion would feel like between our communities and our beloved-ones. Spielberg's picture shows the story of a struggled and torn apart family while their struggling to survive because of the alien invasion.
right from the first shot of ray's neighborhood we (the audience) sense a certain community atmosphere which really adds a lot to the progress of the movie (especially when the first tripod attacks we feel that the community is turn apart and it gives a sense of chaos to the movie... it just makes me say one thing: great job Mr. Spielberg) by the way i think i discovered one of the things that Spielberg used to create that sense of feeling - we can always heard quite and surrounding sound of the neighborhood (e.g. - dog barks, children play, someone screaming out of his car ''hey... move you'r truck!'')
the only thing that disturbed me in this movie was the time length that tom cruise and Dakota spend in that basement with Tim Robbins (it's only 24 minutes but feels like much more, and it slows the movie sequence in a great way. i do not believe that the very talented Steven Spielberg can make interesting and thrilling scenes in small and quite places in such an excellent way that we see in the movie ''signs'') and about that scene in the basement that cruise and Tim Robbins fight, i believe that Spielberg should have made that scene a bit longer a with more screams of pain. and in the final shot that we see tom cruise holding Dakota and their walking towards Mary Ann's parents house in Boston while holding Dakota and then the family is being reunited once again and everybody is safe and OK, and we suddenly find out that Robbie (the son) is alive... that was a bit silly for my taste... i think the movie would have been much better and deeper in an emotional way if he turns out to be dead and then we see the mother of the children slapping cruise again and again for letting Robbie die and then while she slaps cruise she starts crying more and more and then finally he hugs her,and we then find out that Tim (the step-dad)died while trying to save the mother's life. and if not changing the ending of the movie in such a drastic way, then it would have looked much better if ray and his son would have cried a bit more...
but except for those small thing... this is one of my favorite movies. (my no.1 favorite movie is ''saving private Ryan'' which Spielberg also directed.) for conclusion i think i'll give this masterpiece called ''War of the worlds'' a respectable 9.5 grade for this truly is an extraordinary movie that wont be forgotten soon. it surely is a boiling movie from Spielberg's hot factory.