This didn't seem like a Spielberg movie....

Rating: 6/10 (10 July 2005)

....in that it was too crap. OK, first off the special effects were amazing. BUt I always thought Spielberg had movies with good stories that brought something original to the party. WOTW seemed like it could have been done by any action movie director - Michael Bay maybe :-S
OK not much time but things that got to me:
1) If the aliens coveted our planet for a million years, why didn't they just take over before humans existed? Even cavemen could have been exterminated with a pointy stick. 2) How come Tom Cruise ALWAYS seemed to be the prime target for the tripods etc? Out of all the thousands of people crowding the streets...BUt despite this he always managed to avoid their superior technology and weapons. 3)On that note, if it was "an extermination" why not bomb us or gas us or release a selective plague upon us? Instead, the MASSSIVE tripods weapon of choice was laser weapons to take humans out one at a time?!?!!? 4) Also, with their superior technology how come they had no infrared, x-ray etc sensors. All that stuff is common on our own war machines. It would make it a lot less simple to "hide behind a mirror". 5) OK, why WAS Tom Cruises car the ONLY one working. He was lucky?....Hmmm, more story please. 6) The aliens used human blood to fertilise their red weed? This sounds too B-grade to be expanded upon...Sufice to say, with all the species to choose from on earth, are we REALLY the best candidate for fertiliser from an economic point of view?. Ahem - think about The Matrix on his point too... 7) OK, I know people are dumb, but how many of you guys would have stood around while that first tripod emerged? Especially when, like Tom Cruise, every crack in the ground and falling object seemed to have his name all over it?
OK that's all can think of on my short lunch break. My final words are: Average for an action movie - crap for a Spielberg movie.