Very Poor

Rating: 2/10 (6 December 2005)

I just finished watching War Of The Worlds, which is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. There are movies that are not my personal taste though I can still accept as a decent movie, but this movie was nothing but one filled with nice special effects, and bad acting. It had extreme over acting, over dramatization, and totally irrational responses to almost everything that happened. It was worse that the the old disaster movie where one emergency followed another with no stopping. This was sort of like the old Clint Eastwood movies, slow moving with extreme facial expressions and very little plot. The movie even ended with out a clear explanation of why the Aliens died. If I hadn't seen the original movie, even I wouldn't have had the foggiest idea. The stars just seemed to pop out of every seemingly tense situation, with no apparent reason, or explanation of how they survived. One minute he is in a sinking ship, and then he is in the water. Another moment he is in an alien machine, a basket falls, and then he is walking on the ground. I would tend to blame Tom Cruze, because he tends to do that in a lot of his movies, except for the fact, that almost every actor in the movie was the same, even to the little daughter, who had to be the most over protected spoiled brat on the planet. The son was also behaving like a moron, and the movie never really gave a reason for most of what he did. The movie just seemed to drag on with them moving from one basement hiding place to the next. If you want even a better idea how lame it is, just turn off the sound :) I guess I would have to blame Spielberg, because he directed the movie. I watched the whole long movie, with a couple dozen of my friends, and half way through the movie they wanted to put in another movie. If it weren't for one girl who couldn't see how dumb it was, the rest of us would not have even seen the end of the movie