Expected more

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2005)

This movie is a showcase for special effects. Unfortunately, and amazingly, the widescreen DVD is NOT encoded as anamorphic widescreen - which means that if you watch on a widescreen TV, you'll see a small picture with black letterbox bands above and below as well as black panel bars left and right! The story is weak - but you didn't come for that. The character development is very thin; only twice are characters with any depth imperiled, and somehow I couldn't muster any emotion for them. And in a plot filled with barely believable angles, the ending is very weak. The most interesting part of the DVD was the documentary on development of the concepts for the tripods and aliens.