A great invasion drama!

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2005)

Despite having heard 'not-too-good' comments about this movie from my friends, i actually found it very entertaining! The movie starts out showing Tom Cruise as a negligent and careless father Ray Ferrier, and it works!! As Earth gets invaded (and my God, this must be the scariest, most ruthless Earth invasion i've ever laid my eyes upon in movies), we start to see Ray Ferrier's character evolving into a warm, caring father. What makes this movie work so well is that not only we are given superb visuals of Mass Destruction, but also a very involving drama of a family struggling for survival. The CGI are used to good effect, and the scenes are so full of suspense and haunting sense of extermination, it becomes scary! Perhaps my only gripe of the film is the title. Not that it's bad or anything, but "War Of The Worlds" gives us the impression that this is indeed an "epic battle" of aliens vs. humans, when it is in fact, the tale of a family desperately trying to survive a ruthless extermination. Though the movie does suck me in most of the time, towards the end, the way the movie ends is just a bit too... drastic, and when the movie does end... well, i don't want to spoil anything here, but you can't shake off the feeling of cliché at the very end.
But, all in all, a very enjoyable movie. The thrills and buildups, once given away, may not be as engrossing to make us watch it many many times, but for that one sitting, needless to say, i really enjoyed War Of The Worlds.