war of the worlds

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2007)

War of the Worlds War of the Worlds was a very good film. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. It was released in the theaters on June 29, 2005. This movie picture was retold using H.G. Wells movie classic a sci-fi adventure of an unusual battle for the future of all human beings.
This story is told through the eyes of one family who fight just to survive. This film starred Tom Cruise was the main character of this film. Also there was other film stars such as Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin and Tim Robbins. Only part was when Dakota was very over dramatic.
Tom Cruise played Ray Ferrier who worked as a dockworker and was a divorced father who was not a perfect or respected as a father.
The beginning of the movie introduces the Ray when soon after his ex-wife and her new husband, drop off their teenage son, Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a weekend visit when a strange lighting storm starts to occur.
A little while later near Ray's house he sees a three legged war machine that came out from beneath the street and before anyone could move away the war machine starts to incinerate everything and everybody in its path.
The war machine that day has now suddenly changed all the lives of every human being and Ray's family life. This was the first of many alien attacks on the human race on earth.
This movie War of the Worlds depicts Ray's attempts to keep his children away from these war machines. Ray goes on a journey across the land which has been devastated by the war machines. Ray's family becomes engulfed by desperate people seeking refuge while fleeing from these extraterrestrial alien army of war machines tripods.
But no matter where Ray takes his family to seek refuge the extraterrestrials keep coming and finding them. Only Ray's desire to protect his loves ones and when the extraterrestrial aliens die that the journey to survive and the human race is saved.
By: John Kautz, III