Not That Great

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2007)

After reading H.G. Wells' book I think Spielberg had some great ideas on how the aliens got life and were transported to the machines. It was unique, and that's what made me watch more of the movie. Spielberg did a good job, like Orson Welles radio production, it was also cool how he put the setting somewhere where the audience (Americans) would notice where it is all happening. In the movie I disliked a lot more than what I did like though. The movie just didn't excite me and that's maybe because I'm more of an action movie kind of guy. In the movie the little girl was just way to over reacting, and over dramatic she kept screaming when it just wasn't necessary. It became annoying and made me not want to watch the movie. I didn't like how many of the characters were very careless at times like; the father didn't care about anything at all and just forgets about things. His ex-wife was just weird looking and just too much of a needy person to her kids. The flat characters of the movie just seemed to be stupid. They stood there instead of running and getting away. I mean if anything enters our world and you don't know what it is I would run pack and get out of the city. It's just all common sense. It made the characters in the movie seem really senseless. I also didn't like how the aliens could just destroy things like we were bugs and we couldn't do anything to damage them. So in conclusion the movie was OK. I'll give a rating of 6 out of 10. It kept me interested, but there was thing's that really didn't catch my attention to keep me glued to the TV.