An eye candy visual show

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2005)

I usually don't like action-packed movies, SFX, gun fights, wars, explosions, 5.1, etc etc. So, I usually don't see them.
Yet, my wait for this WoW was... spasmodic, I'd say. And it is curious (a coincidence?) that the last film I went see BECAUSE OF the special effects was Independence Day.
I'd heard that the point of view in the film was that of Ray. But I was impressed the same NOT watching scenes that I could expect, such as a President of the United States' speech, or the plan for a military attack... All the military I could see was that passing in front of the terrified eyes of Ray's.
I'd also read that our Ray is a sort of anti-hero. Bully, not kind... Yet, again, the perhaps biggest surprise for me came seeing that his son, not himself, started, on the ship, to help the passengers to come on board.
I wanted to see this film for the special effects, I said, and for the special effects I'm glad I've seen it. The story is probably nothing special, and if you know the book, of course you also know the ending.
But the special effects were amazingly BEAUTIFUL. The same kind of astonishing beauty, I'd say, that keeps you eyes wide open in front of a Gothic cathedral, or a sunset on the sea. The tripods were on the screen, and it was as they were in front of my very eyes: there, living, with their amazing technology and splendour.
An eye candy visual show.