it isn't as good as you think

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2005)

I was really looking forward to see this movie, I liked the book and I liked the 1953 movie, but this one disappointed me. Spielberg's other films are good and I really like what he and tom cruise did on "minority report", so I was hoping to see something cool, with a well build story and great effects. the effects on this movie are great, just as I was hoping, but there are lots of plot holes, and there are some things that are left unexplained, like the red weed or how Robbie survives. Personally, I think the aliens (not martians, aliens) suck. It would have been better if they had look like the ones in "Signs", because they look like a cross between the tripods and the aliens that appear in the movie "Alien". The tripods are really great and they look very real, in some moments, it seems as you were watching a TV documentary, but besides the effects and Dakota's performance, the movie seems to be incomplete. If you like watching spectacular effects, go and see it, but if you were hoping to see a great alien story like H.G. Wells's original story, don't waste your money on this, you better go and see "batman begins", because the only things that are adapted from the book are: the title, the tripods and the way the aliens die.