Great story...... when it was first written !!!!

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2005)

I sat down at the cinema and thought to myself "well I've read the book let's see how quickly Spielberg and Co destroy it", and right from the start typical bloody Americans have set the whole film in America (I know the earlier movie had been as well), why can't people just leave the locations alone, War of the Worlds is set in ENGLAND. So after the first disappointment I proceeded to forget to compare to the book as I would have probably walked out. Now, the special effects are what we come to expect nowadays and as this film heavily depends on them it's a good job too although the actual aliens where unnecessary as I believe not knowing what they look like helps to keep the audience guessing and allow them to use their own imagination. I would say that the first half of this film is actually very entertaining, but as soon as Tim Robbins enters the story I'm afraid the film just looses all credibility, I'm not having a go at Tim Robbins as I think he is a great actor, it's just the story telling was just none existent, it's as though the script writers had said "Hey let's show an intense build up to the Aliens starting the war, and then after that, sod it let's just wing it it's an old story anyway". I not going to go into too much depth of the story but I want to leave you with this thought, If a race of super intelligent beings had chosen Earth as it's feeding ground for it's future young, you would have thought because they are so much more advanced than us that they'd have checked for the only thing that could actually kill them, Bacteria. Now this ending is fine when it was first written, but seen as though Spielberg and Co had changed the story where they saw fit, you'd think that they could have incorporated the old idea with a new slant just so the 21st century audience could actually believe the reason for the Aliens demise.