best sc fi since star wars

Rating: 9/10 (9 July 2005)

Wow!, the first scenes of the alien craft rising out of a crater from within a road was wicked, it was quite a dark film for Spielberg, but a brilliant one, one man's battle (Tom Cruise) to keep his two children safe and well and his struggle to try and find safety and also to escape these killing alien craft. Simple story with excellent acting all round and fantastic special effects. Spielberg seems to prolong and concentrate on the doom and gloom of the alien invasion. As mankind and the world is being wiped out,unlike films like Independece Day,Signs,Evolution etc, not even half way through these films the good guys are winning and all is well, War of the Worlds is the complete opposite. You don't even see the army or any shadow of help until about half half way through the film. I was just sat in my cinema seat thinking bloody hell everyone's going to die, this is the end of the world but just as in the original ending the aliens didn't die from mankind's resistance or weapons but of microscopic germs which they were exposed to when they came out of their crafts. Mankind lost the alien battle invasion but survived.