Oh my god!

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2005)

Does that summary line made you kinda look at these lines now? Well this is just what this movie makes you (no wait it's not a movie it is actually real and they were here all the time), like you are being drawn to it.
I remember when the first tripod came out of hell below earth... It was like "Oh my god, just look at that" (and to tom cruise's face too). And then I realized that I WAS actually one of those people at the cross roads, in new jersey, and I was sharing the same stupidity, disbelief and curiosity for what was about to happen. It WAS REAL for me.
And then of course the struggle started, and ended in a way I didn't quite expected. There were times throughout watching when I asked myself "Why is this Ray guy so lucky that no heat beam disintegrates him?" or "How come the alien didn't see the girl just underneath him?" or "It can't be that easy to knock down a tripod, can it?". But then the reality was SO real that non of those questions mattered... There was a slaughter of man-kind more terrifying than anything I saw before. And this had made me grip the seat tight, made my eye lips open at all times ,catch a cold sweat and breathe only when necessary.
From a technical point of view; each and every character in the film was outstanding in terms of acting, from the extras to the top of the crew, the directing was perfect, the story was excellent except some flaws like the ones mentioned above, the audio-visual effects, sounds and the score were also as great as they could be. I want to especially mention the audio effects here; the sound that the tripod is making when rising from the lake, I've never heard any chaotic machinery like that before! I mean, how could a machine, a device or even something synthesize that devil alien sound? Unbelievable, simply...
Steven Spielberg basically took the heat beam weapon of the aliens, and fired right back us, can't be any real than that :O