This movie sucked

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2005)

This movie was horrible. The first minutes of the movie were cool, when the first tripod comes up, but the rest of the movie sucked. It was just like Spielberg's other horrible movie A.I.. Both had awesome special effects, yet the movies themselves suck. This movie was so bad i don't know where to begin. The plot to this movie must have been thrown together in 5 minutes. The movie starts with the ever so talented Morgan Freeman narrating. He says that Earth is being watched by aliens that are envious of our planet and that is why they attack us. If they wanted the planet so bad why didn't they take it when they dug their machines here in the ground millions of years ago, before humans were around. And wouldn't they have noticed back then that the tiny organisms that live on Earth and killed them in the end of the movie, were harmful to them. And that's the other part of the movie that sucks. I'm sure ending a movie like this is hard to do, but did Spielberg really have to just give up. He ends it with the family reuniting and all the machines and aliens die. Then Morgan freeman's voice has to come back into the movie to explain what the hell is going on.That's how bad the ending is, we have to have someone tell us what's going on because the movie does a horrible job explaining things. And not only that, but it's a mega happy ending, because the son who ran into a wall of fire somehow lived and showed up at the ex-wife's house at the end. Not to mention that for some reason the part of Boston where the ex-wife lives, is totally untouched by the attack and her, her new husband, and her parents are completely unharmed without an ounce of dirt on them. The whole movie is ridiculously unbelievable. Tom Cruise explains to a mechanic how to fix a car after the lightning breaks everything electrical. Yet the spare part he said to use works, along with all the other electrical parts of the car. And somehow there is a path that they can easily ride through on the highway with hundreds of broken down cars on it. Then, the tripods blow up a neighborhood, shoot down a plane that lands right on the house that Tom Cruise and his family are in, and kill everybody. Yet the family comes out of the debris, hop into there untouched van, and ride down this path that is carved through all the crumbled houses, plane parts, and other vehicles, which of coarse are smashed. There was the one part that was believable, when half a dozen people fight off a tentacle that is pulling Tom Cruise away, even though a few seconds earlier an identical tentacle threw Tom Cruise and a car around like they were nothing. But I'm sure six people could fight a tentacle like that off. You suck Spielberg. I want my $9 and the two hours i spent watching this dump back.