One of my favorite Spielberg Movie

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2005)

War of the Worlds is based on the classic book and is about alien invaders attacking the Earth. The movie starts on legendary actor, Morgan Freeman, narrating that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than your own. But the story starts on Ray Ferrier, a slobby crane operator who only thinks of himself. His ex-wife, Mary Ann, and her husband, Tim, are going to Boston to visit her parents. She drops of the kids that Ray and her have, teenager Robbie and 10-year-old Rachel. So it starts like any other weekend until a bursar lighting storm. Ray goes and checks it out and then a Tripod from outer space rises out of the ground and starts to destroy everything in it's way. Then it's up to Ray to bring his kids alive to Boston. This movie really is the most action packed and most exciting 'popcorn-film' of this year. The visual effects are the best I've ever seen! I'm amazed there were no blue screen shots! (Thats what I read). The acting is pretty good, Tom Cruise does a good job, and of course Dakota Fanning, as usual. Steven Spielberg directs it greatly and with Janusz Kaminski's cinematography you really feel you're on the place and I can't complain about the music. But the movie's biggest weakness is the script. It is a great movie but the same as ROTS: to short. The story happens to fast, yet one of my favorite Spielberg movie!