Everything that you can expect from good sci-fi movie.

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2005)

In a snap - it is everything that you can expect from a good sci-fi movie. Yes, Spielberg as a director, M. Freeman as a narrator and T. Cruise in the lead. Can you ask for more ? No, i doubt that. It is an eye candy. Yet it has even more - it manages to mess with your mind a little bit just like "Close encounters" or "Signs". The scenes of destructions are brilliantly constructed and totally believable. It delivers this magical touch of realism with first person view of tireless never-ending action and chaos. If you want to be pretentious to the extreme you can say that it could be a little bit better. There is a room for improvement. Story. Classical novel by H.G. Wells is just too classical for this kind of movie. Some insights of the author on how aliens and their "technology" should look like seems a little bit comical. The reason is - 50 years gap between scenario and movie. On the other hand, modern writers tend to push sci-fi props to the other extreme with over the top alien gadgets and often ruin the whole film. So Spielberg should have just improved same script a little bit more.