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Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2014)

The movie War of the World is about the every lasting fight with human and aliens. Taken through the eyes of Ray Ferries played Tom Cruise, you get to see how the fight is unfolding as he tries to get his son, Robbie played by Justin Chat win and his daughter Rachel played by Dakota Fanning to safety of Boston. The movie starts out with Ray Farrier's children coming to visit him, however a strange lighting storm moves into town. Shortly after the storm, the war begins, news reporter around the world, start reporting huge tripods appearing one after another.
The films is anything but amazing, I say that because I went to theaters to watch this movie, I was expecting it to live up to all the hype, but only to be let down. The acting in the movie was very not convicting that the world is actually at war, the only actor who actually put any effort into the film was Tom Cruise. Dakota's acting was so bad, that even her screaming sounds prerecord in the movie not only that but she literally screams for eighty-five percent of her script in the movie. One of biggest evidence of this, is when Ray literally kills a man because he being too loud and he doesn't want to attract the aliens to where he hiding but his daughter starts scream when she 'suddenly' see them coming through the roof. Next character I've a huge issue is with his son played Justin Chat win, Robbie just complains through the entire movie but his acting was so bad, that you couldn't feel any emotion in him. The scene with biggest evidence is when he supposedly dies but Ray is holding his son back from running into where the alien and United State's Army are fighting, Robbie start complaining that he should just let him go and die rather than save his life. Tom Cruise's acting in the movie was average at best, throughout the movie, he gives us no emotion, no feeling, just a man being a man. I don't know about you, but when I see hundreds of thousands of people literally die around me, I feel would terrified but he just run it off with a straight face, that's like going back in time and witnessing the Holocaust in first person, then shrug it off. I give the acting a 3.5/10.
Moving on the best parts of the film, which is special effect! Steven Spielberg is one of best directors in term of special effects. One of the most movies that we all know and love is Saving Private Ryan was directed by him. Unlike the horrible acting, the effects puts a chill down your spine as you bear witness the hopelessness that human race is in against the superior alien war machines. The scene where this most clear is at Robbie 'death' scene, the United State Army is shooting everything at them, tank's shell, rockets, Helicopter's rocket, and nothing seen to do anything to them. The war machines themselves are extremely well done, from the way they look, to way they act it gives you the impression that they are not of this world, this is present by in very first look at them. The explosion in the movie are also well done, you really get the feel that whole world is at war and are trying their hardest to fight back. Special Effects 8.5/10.
One of things that many movies are often rated by is their props. War of the World does a fine job is that their props are very realistic during the entire time. The aliens themselves look completely realistic, though they do not give off a terrifying appeal as their war machines do. Their almost rhombus looking heads and their small bodies give off an out of this world approach. This scene with the most evidence is when Ray and his daughter are hiding out and group of aliens scout out the build looking for survivors, there you get witness them. The background props are simple the best, they give off a vibe that this isn't war at all, but rather extermination of a pest's population. A scene which to this day is still is etch into my mind, is where the entire surrounding of the house where he was hiding at, is drench in dried up blood, the hills are cover in it, the stream is a bright red blood color and human skin are ling the trees. Rating 7/10
Inclusion, I felt that this movie this could do without the horrible voice actor and just shared the perspective with other people because no one wants to listen a kid screaming all the time or another kid complaining all throughout the film. Without the character and horrible plot this movie would've rated higher than what it has 6.5 on IMDb which is where I'm at with it too. I would recommend this movie to people who want to watch a semi-good horror film.