SPOILER You've got to be kidding me! SPOILER

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2005)

The film gets off to a great start and immediately you begin to become enamored with the characters and the fine setup for what is to come.
Great anticipation is delivered and kept me on the edge of my seat as the Tripods begin their destruction and continue with their harvest of the human race. Along the way there are conflicts with father and son. Everyone learns a little bit more about life in the face of death. It's well done and I'm hooked.
Fast forward through the fantastic action sequences and tension filled scenes and let's move towards the end of the movie.
We're beginning to wind down and FINALLY the U.S. Army is able to destroy one of the Tripods after many, many failed attempts. I get real excited because I am betting, hoping and anticipating something clever was discovered about these unstoppable alien freaks that are eating us up as fast as we can be harvested. Their shield technology is stopping all of our ballistics and have neutralized our communications infrastructure and everything electronic. Mysteriously the Tripods are collapsing. Why?? I want to know about the genius who came up with the plan to destroy the alien threat. It turns out we taste good to the aliens but we gave them a terminal case of food poisoning. With all of their technology and abilities to render humans ineffective they forgot to get their immunization shots. THEY DIED OF FOOD POISONING! How stupid is that? Don't see this movie if you're a fan of sensible endings. My movie watching experience was destroyed with the ending.
I never knew how important a good ending was until I saw this movie. I gave this movie a 3 because it had the potential to be so much more than it was.
The only saving grace is War of the Worlds will only be #1 until July 8 when Fantastic Four is released.