Crap.

Rating: 1/10 (26 July 2005)

Zero creativity. It placed the original radio broadcast from a newsworthy description into the perspective of a substandard father - who shows little growth by the end of the film.
There has never been a movie that I have walked out on... but this came extremely close.
The acting was decent, but every twist and turn was more unrealistic than the last.
I can live in a world where aliens attack - I am a big fan of "Independence Day," "Mars Attacks," "Alien," etc.... But give me a break. You're telling me that aliens planted giant robots under the soil millions of years ago so that it could take it over later? Why not take it over then? Before people had guns and missiles and nuclear weapons.
And at the end when that Robbie kid magically appears at his mother's house? Come on. You mean that billions of people were killed and special soldiers were all taken out - but one kid, who ran toward the exploding tripod lived to tell the tale?
And then there was the germ thing.... when Welles did it in his broadcast, it was creative. But when Spielberg just flat out copies it in some monster "blockbuster," I believe they call that plagiarism. I think they should've spent a little less on the fancy effects (which weren't all that impressive) and a little more on writing a decent script.
This film was almost as bad as that M. Night Shamma-lamma-ding-dong movie "Signs." "Hey guys, let's take over a planet where 75% of its surface can kill us instantly."
Shame on you, Andy Dufrain. I expect this from Cole Trickle, but never you.