WoW, a summer blockbuster

Rating: 2/10 (29 June 2005)

I saw War of the Worlds last night on a midnight session here in Australia, I have to say that i was very exited to see this film and could not hold my excitement for the first 20 minutes. In this first act Spielberg sets the story well, his shots represent perfection, you can see from the very first shot of the film how well constructed it is. Then we start seeing how a dysfunctional family (a Spielberg classic mode) deals with each other until a "storm" comes in. An alien invasion !!! OK I really wanted to see the tripods, and yes they look cool, yes I wanted to see mayhem and I got a little of that, yes I knew what the story was all about so I knew at the end humanity prevails, but ... I know a film must not try to recreate reality, but represent a reality, I know that there must be suspension of disbelief and that we should all relate to the hero of the story and see it unveil trough his eyes, but it all seemed to fake for me, too staged, the hero finds answers to his choices too easily, the director made it too easy, I do not think they let us time to think. And there are scenes, like the one with that other famous actor that seems out of tune. Overall, I did not like it, I'll wait for the DVD for the special features and try to understand it with the commentaries, perhaps ...