How to make war so emotional

Rating: 3/10 (13 October 2006)

I guess it's not an exaggeration to say that most people know the basic story of "War of the Worlds". Aliens invade, start to kill everything in sight, but the human race is spared in the end. Orson Wells managed to scare half a nation in the 1940s, Stephen Spielberg manages to make the other half want to puke in 2005. Even the scsnes which could be scary are ruined by a small girl who is the one person in the film who we all want to strangle before the end. You know the sort, "I'll scweem, scweem, scwwwem until you give me what I want". Unfortunately what she wants is for the nasty Martians to go away and this just ain't going to happen until the last reel. The one good scene is the same as in the earlier vesions where the "snake" is searching round the celler. Perhaps that is the best scene because our heroine doesn't say or do anything except look scared. That is what should have happened through the rest of the film too. If you miss this film, you ain't missed much.