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Rating: 1/10 (5 July 2005)

Its been over 4 months since i dragged myself to the cinema... it takes something quite special to get me to the cinema and well i thought war of the worlds was the film to justify me paying £5:50 and wasting 3 hrs of my life..
The films starts off pretty quick, 5 to 10 minutes the film sets the characters.. and gets straight in with some great effects and some great sounds... and i sat back going wow.
from there it picks up speed, and the next thing you know the aliens are here and people are getting zapped.
from there.... thats when it kinda goes bad.. very bad... and it ain't a slow bad its a jump straight down and hit rock bottom kind of bad...
there is no real substance to this film.. the film looks more at the strains and pains of a relationship of a already broken family when put under life threatening pressure.
for the next 1hr you get constant arguing between the main character played by cruise and his argumentative contraindicative son... while there annoying daughter does constant annoying things which makes you wanna jump in the film and tell her to shut the hell up.
After that the use of the aliens is frequent but to no consequence, nothing really happens... your there wanting a great battle or at least a great attempt of a battle... you want to see some of that Earth fight !! instead you get long panned out shots of the occasional human being bent over and killed by strider's..
The ending is just as bad... running through a city in a group.... with news filtering through some are being taken down, around the world.. old eagle eye cruise, sees something every military intelligence fails to spot, and that birds are now sitting on one of the strider's having a chat. "look shoot the head" or words to that effect blurted out to some confused army looking dude. three rockets later and an alien drops out and slides out dead... wait for it.. yup there ya go.. "the end" not guns, or missiles or nukes ... but the good old common cold.. saved the day.. .. saving us from extinction..
bloody great... if it was that easy, we should have let Saddam go back to Iraq and let him use his hidden stash of biological weapons on there asses...
overall the film is a DVD watch at best.. and really disappoints.
A point i want to make... in the film there are a few mistakes... after the 1st storm which fries all electrics of cars, lights, TV's ... when all the dumb ass Americans are running towards the site where the alien is coming out the ground.. there is some mad fool who is there filming it... on a no more then a Sony hand cam... how is it he finds the only working electrical item in radius of 10km or so. (thankfully he gets zapped for his nerve)