4 months not enough

Rating: 2/10 (29 June 2005)

Just came back from the preview of the new so called Horror SF movie from Spielberg. In front I was very skeptical about him directing a movie like that, but then I remembered Jaws and his beginnings and I trusted him a little more. In fact the start of WoW is very speedy and takes not a long time to introduce any characters, which was made pretty good and added to the fun. The sounds stunned me away and made a perfect symbiont to the SE on the screen so I really started to enjoy it but in time I was very disappointed about the plot, I just expected "a little more" of everything. I didn't liked the concept of Tom Cruise walk to Boston as the one and only story there was. I hoped so much to see scenes of mass destruction of the world (the typical broken tower in Paris e.g.) like they did in Armageddon. ...short but there... this would have been a nice addition to the "whole world goes down under" scenario, but NOTHING...instead a cheap explanation that all communication is gone and no pictures exist...damned! also why do the Aliens should have planted their Tripods in the earth before mankind walked on Earth? Why wait until man is far enough to have weapons to react? Why not come in the middle-age then and take over the world without any risk? Then the scene with the decision of good old Tom where he decided to leave his son be and saved his daughter...the whole hill was burned down, everybody died and I liked it! it was dark and nasty as promised...but the son appears back and not even harmed in the end of the typical damned Hollywood Happy Endings which was definitely NOT what I wanted to see in a movie like that. in fact the movie started to get bad at the moment Tim Robbins appeared (oh yeah I like him but not here and like that). I would even look over the cruel stolen idea from "the Abyss" but that they fight more than 10 minutes about Tim shooting the aliens with just one bullet was so stupid and boring. The aliens looked so dumb and standard that I wished they never had been shown...after that the whole thing had lost its darkness to me and the mean, dark and great Tripods became much much more harmless than at the beginning...Maybe Steven should have asked Giger to make the design...Then the illogical things came more and more. Why didn't the (always screaming to the nerves) daughter didn't hear her father only 10 meters away and came back just when the Tripod appears? why why why???. And just a minute at the end to explain what really happened is also not enough. Now I know why this movie could be made in only 4 months. It's not the movie I wanted to see, and not the movie I will see again...too bad