H G Wells turning in his grave

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2005)

I truly found this film annoying. Why was everyone screaming instructions and queries at each other - but never answers? It always seems with American movies of this type that their only answer is violence - if not to the invaders then to each other! The scene in the cellar where the Aliens are trying to find them - oh fooled by a mirror - easy to see how this could happen when you only had the intellect to get to earth! The deviation from the original story that had the machines already buried beneath the Earth rather than arriving in cylinders and then assembled was flawed - if the Aliens had visited Earth "Millions of Years Ago" then surely they would have been prepared for the bacteria that ultimately lead to their downfall. Off to B&Q to get some emulsion so I can paint the wall behind the TV - watching this dry will be far more entertaining.