Superb, one of the best ever.

Rating: 9/10 (15 August 2006)

From what I've read of the majority comments for War of the Worlds, you people are a bunch of whiners. But hey, that's just me.
Spoilers ahead.
Who's to say that the Martians wanted to shut down everything? Wouldn't it be a waste of time and power to get rid of Humanity's cameras? What good would they do, since they knew the Humans wouldn't be alive for much longer anyway? Let them record.
I agree that it's highly unlikely that Robbie would have been alive at the end, but I think that's probably the point of it. You're not going to expect him to live after he runs over the hill, toward the Tripod, and the ground bursts into flames moments later. It's supposed to be miraculous. Beyond belief, no. But incredibly unlikely, I agree with.
The decision to make the aliens invulnerable was a superfluous step up from the book, I believe. Something we have a chance of taking down isn't that "disturbing", I guess is the word. But imagine, beings that have advanced to the point so that our strongest weapons just harmlessly bounce off them is much more ominous. We can't even slow them down.
As for the defeat of the Martians, for the late 1800's, it was quite an intelligent ending. Some have said that they would have checked the air if they're so advanced. But their plant was dying, and they needed to overtake the Earth as soon as possible. It's probable that they could overlook such a thing. Like the space probe that failed because the team was made from people all over the world, and one side used metric, while the American side used customary, and neither realized it until the end?
Rant-like quality aside, War of the Worlds truly is a masterpiece, and I'd recommend it as one of the best of our time.