"War of the Worlds" is the BOMB

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2007)

After watching Stephen Spielberg's rendition of the "War of the Worlds" I was actually really impressed with the movie. The main reason that I like this movie is because it stays true to its original plot as H.G. Wells intended it to be, and also to the 1953 Haskins rendition of "War of the Worlds". For me I found the movie quite believable in a way because here's an average family, with their average problems but they have to deal with a horrific situation not just them the whole world that the aliens came to earth and are now trying to conquer it and eliminate all of humanity. I also thought the design for the machines and the aliens themselves were pretty amazing. The machines having 3 legs, I thought was cool because it's kind of like it's out of this world, and how everything on earth either has 2 or 4 legs and wherever they were from had an odd number, and it just adds to the terror of these machines. I also liked the aliens with their 3 legs matching there machines, or tri-pods if you will, walking and acting like them in a way. Coming off a good note I wanted to and express some things I really didn't like about the movie. The one thing I really didn't like about the movie was Susan (Dakota Fanning) was that I think she was a little over dramatic during the whole movie. Also I thought that it was a little unlikely that a family could run so many miles and the whole time they are going in the same direction that the tri-pods were going. Overall I thought that the movie "War of the Worlds" was a very plausible and interesting movie and I never got bored while watching it. I would recommend this movie to anybody who watches movies for the thrill and adrenaline rush of sci-fi alien movies.