"War of the Worlds"-Nothing but things blowing up.

Rating: 5/10 (9 July 2005)

I voted this movie 5 out of 10, because one: I cannot say it is a good movie, and two: I cannot say it is a bad movie. Spielburg impressed me once more with his very spectacular graphics, and extraordinary scenarios. But Cruise on the other hand, aside from running, yelling, and attempting to kill people, he is absolutely useless. And then there's Dokota Fanning, boy did she do an excellent job! (notice the sarcasm). It seemed her only lines were screams and attempts to cry.
I have to admit, the beginning of this movie kept me enthralled, I was interested into what would happen next, and by the end of the movie, I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be.
Do not get me wrong, this is a fantastic film, CGI wise anyway. The plot was straight forward, yet so very simple: Lightning strikes, aliens attack earth, people die, things blow up...then again: Lightning strikes, aliens attack earth, people die, things blow up. Its the same thing over and over and over again, and after a while, it gets tiring.
Sure this is 'The Summer Blockbuster' of the year, but its just NOT that great. It ends with you having about a million and one questions stuck at the back of your head. Like for one: Robbie ventures into a military explosion, fire everywhere, and yet he still winds up in Boston. How? How did he survive, how did he get there so freaking fast!? Then, there's a part where Ray shoves a grenade up some sort of hole that one Tripod uses to eat people. Well the Tripod blows up on the interior, and falls. But, all the other Tripods fall to, why? Was the one Ray killed the leader? We don't know. And then these birds start attacking the top of the Tripods, and they die. If birds could kill these things, why didn't they do it when they first started appearing? Nothing is explained as it should be.
But, aside from all this negative talk, this movie does have a positive side, like its interesting how Aliens could have planted these things underground and attack us all of a sudden, its interesting how they plan their attacks, and its interesting how Morgan Freeman talks with such big and complex words. But come on people, H.G. Wells wanted much more then this.