Close to the original story

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2007)

I'm big fan of the original The War of the World.
I expected that this remake would be crap, like most remakes of the 1950's sci-fi movie.
I was half right, the directors kept close to the original story by H.G. Wells, except for the non-sense about the tripod machines being under ground.
I heard that one thing in the movie, showing a human being slaughtered and vacuumed up to the ship, up set some people. (Try working in a meat slaughter house, you would be upset more.) Tome Cruise fans will hate me, but his real claim to fame is being cute to women and some men.
But he couldn't act his way out a corner.
The special effects were great, the fact that Cruise played a coward and bad father was (I guess) to be a different facet of his acting ability.
Over all the movie was good, but not as good as the original. IMHO 5/10