Not just about terrorism

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2005)

War of the Worlds is to Sci-Fi, what Saving Private Ryan was to War films This movie isn't just about terrorism (that's so obvious, even the young girl in the film picks up on that), but more significantly (from Spielberg's perspective), it's about Nazism and the Final Solution. Terrorists don't experiment on people, they don't hunt them down and round them up, they don't engage in battle on the battlefields...A brilliant film - I can't understand how people think Scorsese is the best American Director - Spielberg shows with a glance, a mood, a simple reading of a line, what was missing from The Aviator. You know more about these people's motives in 8 minutes then you do in The Aviator's 3 hours. Of course Tom Cruise probably thinks this movie is a docu-drama.
I can't understand why people complain about the ending...that's how the original story goes!