Great movie So Scary!

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2005)

WOTW was frightening! I was also surprised for the PG-13 rating cause yes Dakota does go down to a riverfront and see bodies floating, and not to mention the blood sucking, vaporizing, crazy aliens.
The first time that we see the aliens, wow!!! It starts with the lightening 26 times in ONE SPOT WOW!!! (the aliens come through the lightening into the machines that were buried all over the world b4 humans and stuff). Tommy and Dakota are freakin out underneath a table (the boy stole Tommy's car so he is god knows where, but he comes back right after the lightening). Tommy runs downtown with a whole bunch of other people to see some hole in the ground and then the dang tripod comes up from the ground after taking out like the entire street and destroys buildings. After like 3-5 minutes of streets cracking apart, we see this octopus like machine, BIG MACHINE come out of the ground and at first everyone is just looking at it ... like O0OoooOOOo pretty colors, then it just starts to like vaporize people left and right, but OF COURSE good IL' Tommy gets away just fine. He RUNS home and tells the kids they have 60 seconds b4 they got to leave. They are do freaked out...then they jump in a random mini van and this guy trys to talk to them and Tommy is all like get in the car or ur gonna die dude!! Dakota is all like What the Fudge and freaking out and then she turns around, sees the crazy laser beams, starts screaming they drive away, and the guy they were just talking to gets vaporized!!!! The freeway behind them like flies up in the air....THE ENTIRE FREEWAY!!! This suspense keeps up for like 20-30 minutes its crazy!!!
The film was amazing for any WOTW fans. Personally, I have only seen parts of the 50's version, which was scary....but with the effects of this movie, it truly is amazing, HG Wells would have been proud.
The only thing is the fact that they hired a 23 year old to play Cruise's son, that was a bit odd. But all in all, this truly is the movie of Summer 2005!
Go see it!