What...? Not great, but fun special FX. - 5 of 10

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2005)

Well, this one misses the mark slightly. Some implausible story turns cause some confusion on this one. I didn't understand why some things happened when they happened. Or why they happened at all. Character development should be more important to some film makers.
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My main gripe, though, is that it's a premise of this film that they placed the Martian walking machines in the ground some while before the attack. With this in mind, I would think that there would have been a sampling of the Earth's microscopic life as that occurred. I just can't buy that they died from microbes in this scenario. The original did not propose this in my memory which makes the ending more plausible. Or did I miss something? This doesn't make much sense. Neither do a couple of other things, but I'll let them slide.
Passable acting, no deep dialogue, but then, it's an action film. The action is sometimes slow, but there are some pretty good FX. All this adds up to 5 of 10. Maybe a fat five, but no better.