War of the Worlds?

Rating: 2/10 (1 July 2005)

It did keep my interest but it by no means lived up to it's namesake. The original works bring the invaders down from somewhere else (Mars) along with all their machines. This one had the invaders from clouds, not even ships, moving into pre-set machines, buried in the earth... skipping over lots of other issues... IF the battle units were preset millions of years ago, it would be like us burying a catapult in the past to use in the present - I do not see the invaders technology being stagnant for that long... Then there is the issue of the bacteria... If the machines were preset, would not the original force have died from the same bacteria? this would have given them the chance to create a vaccine or similar way to survive it...Maybe what happened is millions of years ago these invaders tried attacking and the bacteria defeated them and as they died they buried the machines then this time they came back thinking that they had developed immunity or something??? no, maybe they should have stayed with the running title "Out of the Night" I could have accepted it better and would have thought how strangely similar to the War of the Worlds it was... I just cannot think of rational explanations for a few of the issues the movie includes and that degrades its value as a good movie.
I truly think if I had access to all the used and cut scenes, a good video editing program and about 15 min of look-alike actors with a small amount of script re-write I could make this into a better movie than it currently is... I really do.