Incredibly, laughably disappointing, stupendously awful -other than that, just OK

Rating: 1/10 (5 July 2005)

Stephen Spielberg has gone nothing but downhill since Jaws. A.I. had hope until Dr Know showed up, but after 20 minutes of good special effects to start this movie (War of the Worlds) it became so bad I literally laughed out loud - repeatedly.
Bad scare tactics, re-hashed monsters, ridiculous characters and product placements (One example - A brand-new $4000 Omega chronograph watch on a ruff-tuff NYC crane operator as he lives in squalor?) The improbable logistics of travel by the characters, the incongruous implausibility of the ending and the complete and utter devastation of the world being ignored because now that mummy and pop and the kiddies are at cleaned and polished granny and grand-dad's who are on a devastated street, but emerge looking as if they've come from an upstairs downstairs episode makeup session? The complete ignorance of the laws of physics and water mechanics? All the cars on the freeways were perfectly out of the way for Ray to zoom through in the only operating vehicle in the tri-state area? When is Hollywood going to create another original script? Awful, awful, awful, awful,awful, awful, awful.
Funny, it still seems just as awful as before.