Again a great story spoiled by Steven Spielberg

Rating: 2/10 (15 July 2005)

Steven Spielberg loves to make drama and always makes movies about family relationship , a son with his mother , a daughter with her father , childes with adults , you name it , but as a "good" businessman he is afraid to make a pure drama without any computer special effects , to not lose any dollars he adds specials features to his soap operas like robots (AI), dinosaurs (Jurrasic Park 1,2,3), Meteors (deep impact, the worse movie I ever saw in theater after Jaws 4) and now aliens in this movie , War of the Worlds, he uses also the service of a good famous actor ,here Tom Cruise ...et voilà.
Sadly the trick is working , and people keep coming to watch the Steven Spielberg true dramas fake SF movies .
If you take a SF movie like Aliens or Predator , The central point is the monster and the relationships of the heroes just turn around this central point , theses relations are not too deep but enough to know what everyone is thinking and feeling , the best part is for the plot,the suspense ,the action and the thrill. In this movie the aliens are in the second plan ,in the background ,who are they , what they are doing , if you didn't read the book or seen the first movie , you just don't know , Steven Spilberg confessed it, he wanted to concentrate the story to a relation between a father and his daughter, I don't understand why he has to spoil a great story to make his drama when many many SF fans just don't care about it and want to see a story about aliens. OK , we have some cool specials effects for 10-15 min in a 2 hours movie ( well better than Deep impact who had 5 min of special effects for 3 hours of crappy talking ).
For those who enjoy the original book of HG.wells in 1898 or the very cool old movie made in 1953 by George Pal (both stories didn't involve kids in it, but it seems than Steven Spilberg cannot make a movie without a kid ), this one smells the fraud.
I give a 2 star for this poor movie , with a poor script , a very good original story spoiled with holes and non senses (that were not in the 2 previous versions ), some stupid clichés from the first movie made in 1953 , strangely some obvious political messages included ??? , and a medium soundtrack performed by John Williams himself who was in lack of inspiration this time , i don't blame him.
The two stars go for the specials effects , and the rare exciting scenes .The ones who have put 10 stars on this movie are just some unbrainded fanatic propagandists with no objectives criticizes to argue with, the only question is who are this people , very easy customers , titanium hard core Spielberg fans or else ?
I would like to say two last things , when you watch Steven Spilberg movies its like to go in a restaurant and what ever meal you order you get the same hamburger with different sauce on it , he have made some great movies but this ones will join the low B movies when the specials effects will be old in the few years to come.
Also, there is no movie for adults anymore ( well OK , the porn ), nowadays to make a maximum profit, Hollywood serves us only family movies than include kids,teens and adults together , movies for everyone than are in fact movies for no one.