Painful and Dull

Rating: 3/10 (2 October 2009)

If War of the Worlds proved anything it proved this, in a big action blockbuster full of explosions, we do not need endless character studies.
People will tell you in X movie there was no development of the characters, we did not feel their motivations etc, that works for a drama not a movie like War of the Worlds.
You see none of the characters here were likable, and the more the movie went on the more unlikeable they become.
Finally the boy vanishes, in a totally ridiculous scene of father choosing between two children which could have been very easily resolved. As a friend of mine says one of the most unrealistic scenes in movies, Then he suddenly re-appears, in a very weak unsatisfying conclusion.
You know if you want to listen to a young girl screaming for no particular reason for what seems like hours on end, and watch long elongated quite boring scenes (like the one in the house with Tim Robbins) go for it, for me a movie with explosions and aliens has to be a little more entertaining, a little less painful, and you know what we know it is fantasy so don't try to make it seem realistic.
The more you make a movie like this seem real the less real it gets!!! There is a world they exist in, and this wasn't it.
A gracious 3 out of ten.