"eye" eh ? Where was the US army .. "eyeraq" ?

Rating: 6/10 (5 August 2005)

Great movie and generally faithful to the book and 1953 movie but one little hitch... we had lots of tripods running around the US virtually unchallenged.. and i don't mean they swept the human forces aside like in the Wells novel and the 1953 movie - i mean they were hardly attacked ! Where was the BATTLE ? And don't mention that pitiful encounter on the ridge with ONE tank, a line of Hummers and a tree. In the novel and the other movie there were epic battles were the aliens were fought all the way back to London/LA respectively. The Brits in 1898 smashed one with artillery and two with a warship. The US in 1953 nuked, shelled and mortared them ! Yes i know that it was "the rout of civilisation and the massacre of mankind" but the army should have been massacred too, shells and missiles bouncing off shields.
The "eye" was a great idea but it missed a chance for an amazing scene when the kid wanted to see the battle.. the camera could have taken us to the top of the hill then pulled right out to reveal a massive land battle with artillery and tanks.. backed up by F-18s screaming down for low level missile attacks.. hell, ramming them too ! Thats all i wanted, just one battle ! Anyway.. worth the admission fee for the tripods and their fog horn.. it did work ! But I wanted a lot more "war" in War Of The Worlds 2005 !