No humans allowed at the finish line

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2005)

In 2005,no more "oh wow's" with regard to computer effects. Just assume that anything can be done and that anything can be shown. Do not get breathless over an effect, unless you are in the business of making them yourself.
So the tripods take over and, as ever, the invaders are stopped by our little earthchildren friends the microbes. Suppose the invaders had done a little research in the eons since they buried their assault weapons and come up with a vaccine. You wonder why they hadn't thought of that. But suppose they did. Then we would have been cooked, Tom Cruise, screaming vegetarian brat and all. No amount of Tom Cruisery could have saved the planet. That might not be a bad formula shift for a different aliens-take-over movie. I mean, let the aliens kill everything and everybody, watch the last human die, and then watch the aliens start to build their own colonies which could scuffle with one another or whatever. The end of such a movie could be all-alien, no humans allowed. Some brave director needs to think about this.