Really good with one edit

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2006)

Not too far from the original novel, compares well with the '53 Geogre Pal version. Tripods are Wells, the shape of the spaceships are Pal. All it needs is one less overwrought character: Tim Robbins. When I taped it I edited out most of his part. He's just stuck in there like he's a friend of Spielberg in need of a buck. I also felt this way in Clint Eastwood's "The Unforgiven": edit out Richard Harris and you have an intact, faster moving flick.
There was publicity that Gene Barry from the '53 version has a no-line appearance at the very end as Grandpa. Alongside him was Ann Robinson, the female interest in '53.
Little thing: Ann is the sister of Jay Robinson, the evil Roman emperor in "The Robe."