French Battle Tactics

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2005)

Its funny that Speilbergs worst film is still more entertaining that people's worst films.
Massive and I do mean MASSIVE inconsistencies (along the lines of after the circuitry of an entire area being EMP blasted out of working, then 5 minutes later at the same location, watching a camcorder taping the events), and a humanity you don't give two shits about saving (but for the three main characters), and needless violence left me numb after this film.
eh...
the worst part of this film is that it assumes humanity is worth saving... witness the actions of everyone but the main 3 characters... all selfish and humanity at its worst. Wells concluded we had "earned" our right to exist by our acquired resistance to ordinary viruses... but Spielberg's film casts the world in harsher tones, where we are damn lucky to survive and where no heroic action saves us, but the mindless saga of endlessly multiplying paramecia not to mention that you always know the 3 main characters will survive... despite the fact that one of them advances on a hill embattled by the aliens... the entire ridge of the hill detonates... but at the end of the film, the kid somehow made it to Boston...
and the inclusion of every conceivable disaster reference... walls of the "have you seen this person" fliers a la 9/11, "There's more room on this boat!"... a la Titanic, ...whenever someone takes out a gun, disaster ensues... well, thats just from every disaster ever... all you needed was an escape from a burning building a la towering inferno, and a Poseidon adventure reference and you would have been set.
Spielberg's War of the World's: More Flawed than French Battle Strategy