PLOT SPOILERS? there's no plot to spoil.......

Rating: 1/10 (4 July 2005)

First of all, I'll get the plot spoilers out of the way. Tom Cruise has an inconsequential job as a dock worker in new york, and two kids, and a ex wife situation. Then, while he's looking after them for the weekend, aliens come down from the sky "through the lightning" into the ground, into their mass killing metal tripod machines, which were "buried there all along". Before you know it, said machines are "everywhere", of course we only see the ones wreaking havoc in America, cos thats the only place that matters.
More havoc, violence, raygun zapping/vaporising of white middle class American humans ensues, with cruise doing the honorable thing and running away from them. Then, more of that. Then, bit more. Then, they get his daughter, and cruise suddenly turns commando and personally impregnates a couple of hand grenades up the tripod's bum and they all die.
Then, get this. The voice over at the end explains how they were all doomed from the start, because of their inability to resist our germs and viruses that we have on this planet, and thats what killed them after all.
Us and them both. If we continue to tolerate this sort of parasitic mindless twaddle in cinemas any longer, we shall surely perish. It is painful. It is insulting. It is pathetic. It is offensive. It is willfully ignorant. It is cheap.
Why go to the cinema to see rivers of blood, hundreds of bodies mowed down vacantly, and utter chaos and destruction? Why not go to Iraq, or Rwanda, or Afghanistan, or Darfur, and see it first hand. America produced and directed all four of them by the way.
Of course, it could never happen here, cos we are America, and only evil aliens that have "been planning this for years" could possibly make us refugees. Hence the validity of this film? Er, no.
Some films make you think, while you're watching them, about 5, 10, 20 things even. War of the worlds did not have sufficient plot or character to give cause to think about anything, once, at all ever.
The only thing i realized whilst watching, is that the kind of learned helplessness that sedated audiences viewing it are reinforcing is an invaluable tool for the Hollywood-military- governmental agenda; hence we are being programmed that war is normal, and don't try and stop it, just comply, fight, and die.
By the way, if it was the bugs that killed the aliens, then how the heck did they manage to build and bury their tripods underground all those years ago. This film explains nothing, gives nothing, offers nothing, inspires nothing. Please don't see it.