Well what a surprise, another yank rip off!

Rating: 3/10 (16 September 2006)

OK lets start of with the good. As you would expect, wonderful visuals and in places some quite exciting. I like the way Spielbery leaves all the action in the back ground, choosing instead to focus on the characters.
Now begins the pain...
So OK OK, a good adaptation of the original book in order to aim it at the 'appealing' market, eg. yankland. However! Once again, yankie film makers seam to forget that there IS actually a world outside of America and they wasted an opportunity to show a more global struggle.
Let me also state that i am related quite closely to the Original Author Mr. Wells. So, I feel a somewhat personal slating that one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written has been slandered so on screen. All the components that make the book engrossing are missing.
This is only a quick rant, as above mainly because one of my relatives novels has been ripped to trash.
Very standard acting with a slight twist of excellent imagery. NOT FOR FANS OF THE NOVEL. I mean for gods sake, they even had to change the opening dialogue! I truly hope that someone will make a faithful adaptation, as it was the fact that 99.9% of people in the time it was wrote 'ever considered the possibility of life on other planets.' Please excuse this rant as personal, not necessarily informative.