Wow

Rating: 2/10 (9 January 2006)

Wow! I just watched War Of the Worlds and all I can say is wow... Wow did that suck. That movie was horrible. It started off okay, can't go wrong with Morgan freeman (or so I thought).
It all went stupid when the invasion began. First they take out all of the electronics, the cell phones don't work, the watches, but camcorders still work sop a man can film his destruction. Next you realize that the machines came from underground and they were probably there for a very long time. So why didn't they conquer earth when they put these machines underground! And second how did they know were to f***ing put them? "Oh well lets put 50 of them here cause in one million years new York City will be here..."
Next they get in a car that has a new starter so now it works just fine. well if it is that simple how come they are they only ones in the damn movie with a car!
Well, the next annoying bit is the family in general. Okay we get that it is a dysfunctional family... We don't need to spend half the movie dealing with it. I know the characters have to develop (which was just way to obvious).
Now why did the birds fly towards the destruction every time? Birds are not that dumb! They know to run away when everything is dieing! And so many random unexplained things. Why was that train on fire? Why does laundry constantly fall from the sky? And the scene in the basement. A twenty minute game of hide and go seek. I was not on the edge of my seat.
Then we get to the end. The only thing in the movie they got from the book and they still f***ed it up! The aliens died do to spores in the atmosphere that we are immune to now. Was that that hard to say? Morgan Freeman said something, but I don't know what! And what was the deal with the family at the end. A billion people are dead. that is one in five people dead. Except for everyone Tom Cruise has ever met. They are all fine! The son is still alive even though he should be dead, and the Mom, and her family managed to hide in the only part of all of Boston that was not destroyed. They're house was just fine! The only redeeming part of the whole movie is Dakota Fanning's performance. She did a really good job.
Let me give you some advise if you didn't have the misfortune of seeing this movie... Don't!!! It was two hours and $15 I will never get back! H. G. Wells is spinning in his grave!