Astonishing

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2005)

Hands down, this is the best movie I've seen all year, and in the last few years, to be honest. I won't bother trying to convince people to see this because either you will or will not. It doesn't matter. The movie blew me away and surpassed all my expectations. In a time when most (almost all) movies really suck, this was a breath of fresh air! Those tripods are the most menacing antagonist in any film I've seen to date because they strike the right tone of being halfway between plausible, as though they could pop out of the ground any minute, and awe-inspiring, without being over-the-top like the city-destroyers in ID4. It truly is cinema at it's best.