Good Movie, but the book's better

Rating: 7/10 (11 April 2006)

Saw this movie at the cinema. It's obvious from the beginning that it has spectacular special effects and that a lot of time has gone into making it. However, I found just a few factors let it down. The first is the alien scene where they come down into the basement and start looking at photos and things. It almost ruins the fear of the aliens as they seem pretty stupid and don't look at all as scary as described in the book. Also the girl screaming through most of the second half of the movie starts to get annoying. Her part was nearly pointless, although I can see the purpose of some of it.
Basically it's a brilliantly interpreted movie bringing to life one of the world's best sci-fi books ever written. I would have liked to see this movie in the 19th century as in the book but I assume it would not have been as popular worldwide.
Chris