This movie sucked - War of the Worlds Reviews

This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I feel like Ned Beatty in Deliverance. Save your money and rent Jaws.

Dakota was terrible - War of the Worlds Reviews

I can't believe all of the hype over Dakota in this movie. If she was playing a three to four year old, maybe I could've put up with her lame shrieking for the whole movie. I blame the acting, casting and direction for making me listen to her annoying screams for too long. I thought Tom Cruise did a good job acting: he was believable even though everything else was so far-fetched. When the best special effects in an alien attacking the world movie is when a high speed train passes by while on fire, don't waste your money to see it in a theater. This is definitely a movie you could wait to see on your smallest tv at home when there's nothing better to watch.

Critics are bought off. - War of the Worlds Reviews

Wow, what a disappointment! Critics had given this movie a great rating. Why did I even consider the critics thoughts on a movie is beyond me. I have never agreed with the critics and this movie is a perfect example. Tom's acting was not believeable. The scenes were not believeable, and the story was not believeable. The military fighting the envaders was close to nill and the aliens use of humans to spray on the Earth has laughable. Please, save your money and turn on the TV. At least with the TV you can get up and leave without losing your money.

Who is drinking kool-aid - War of the Worlds Reviews

This movie was bad - just plan bad...117 minutes of litening the the little brat scream and then go to her "circle of trust" come one give me a break. The scripted was just plan bad - if I were speilberg I would not have my name associated with this movie. it was like the went full on for 115 minutes the ended in the last 2. Spielberg could have saved 2 hours out my life by just have Morgan Freeman just speak the begining and ending naration and be done... If I knew what i know now about the movie I would have gladly paid 12 bucks to get in just to get 2 hours of my life back...

Snap... crackle... flop! - War of the Worlds Reviews

This movie has more holes in it than a slice of swiss cheese! It was truely dissapointing. But honestly, you had to expect it. The way Tom's been using his personal life to gain free media attention for the movie... the onslaught of advertising... the shill reviews flooding this forum. All fingers point to a desperate push for a big opening weekend. Those in charge know this blockblunder won't make ticket sales past week one. It's all quite sad, this movie had SO much potential.

Holmes dumps cruise after seeing the movie - War of the Worlds Reviews

Terrible! Absolutely the worst movie I have seen since Hudson Hawk. Where to begin? Tom Cruise has lost his mind. That weird vibe he had when he went on Oprah - he had the same thing in the movie. Maybe Cruise is still in character. Dakota Fanning - if staring straight ahead and screaming are the keys to being a good child actor, then she is gonna be a star. Hopefully, Cruise didn't transfer his weird Scientology obsession to poor Dakota. Cruise's son - I would never hit a kid - except maybe this one. He is the one who beat out 5,000 other kids for this part? Isn't Tobey Maguire free? Plot - the original was fine. I even like the idea of focusing on one family but does it have to be a disfunctional one? I could visit my family if I wanted to see that. Special effects - nothing special. Looked like the cutting room floor stuff from Minority Report. Overall - Every 2 or 3 movies Tom does a real stinker (Magnolia, Legend, Cocktail). So I guess for every Top Gun or Last Samurai we have to suffer through a War of the Worlds.

All down hill after first 20 minutes - War of the Worlds Reviews

I came to this movie expecting an action pack thriller. The movie gets right into the story and you think it is going to be a great movie, I mean it directed by Steven Speilberg, was I wrong to expect something with more depth? However I quickly realized that the characters petty and just plain dumb fighting with eachother takes away from the movie, and it is more of that than aliens and story. The whole movie they are trying to get to boston, where somehow it is safe there when the whole world is being destroyed. Anyways you dont see much of the aliens and the movie only shows the tripod things that they use. All in all this movie was a waste of my money, and I would recommend seeing Batman instead

Spielberg's all-time worst - War of the Worlds Reviews

I would say that "Don't watch it in cinemas". Because it's weak, worst, disapointing and not worth watching. The spilelberg is out of idea. And Cruise is just a loser after trust in spielberg.

Didn't like it at all! - War of the Worlds Reviews

Interesting story, lousy production. Made for 13-year-olds. I went to see it only because I liked the story, but had really hard time paying for anything that's going to help Cruise's career. He is not a bad actor, but he's crossed the line. There are many other actors out there who are more respectful of other peoples choices.

Alien turd!! - War of the Worlds Reviews

Pure Crap!!! I'd rather poke my eye out with a stick than see this movie again!! Even the effects where totally over done. Don't waste your time or money!!

Hated it! too long and predictable! - War of the Worlds Reviews

See it on video... this movie is just plain dumb. I should have seen anything else. The movie is about Wells classic tale but is ruined by the overdramatic role of Tom Cruise. Then, when you think all is safe... little annoying Dakota Fanning joins the picture and begins to make the movie drag longer and longer and longer. Dakota Fanning gets on your nerves VERY quickly. So disapointed!

War of the egos - War of the Worlds Reviews

Take Hollywood's most famous cardboard director, team him with Hwood's most notorious cardboard actor, and have them do a character plot with history's most famous sci-fi tale. Shake or stir, it really doesn't matter, but what you end up with is tantamount to fraud. If ever there was an alien driven shoot-'em-up with endless potential for mindless entertainment, this was it. What the film really proves is that Spielberg has too much control, money, and virtually no studio oversight. This is not a character study like H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Ya gotta wonder if anyone involved in the production even read the book. The two film versions ricochet from Cold War and Fascist allegories to sappy and no-acting from the heart portraits of America the Foreboding. Gee willikers, Steve, couldn't handle the production of a serious action pic while entertaining the underground motions of humanity and subversion? What the film also proves is the numbing inescapability of rewriting quality into crap. Makes one wonder how the Lord of the Rings trilogy ever made it to the screen. Apparently Peter Jackson knows how to follow a story if nothing else. The utter absurdity of having buried Martians erupt after a million years is simply too overwhelming and stupid to bear. Obviously the Martians compensated for erosion, continental drift and the planet's organic evolution. Hmmmm, but they never tested the atmosphere? One can forgive HG for the ignorance, but not a prime time delivery like Spielberg's. You wanna invade, you recon the food, air and water. It simply doesn't work, and Cruise, the most popular bad actor of our time, is ill equipped to pull off the kind of serious dramatic run he attempts. The lightning is lame, and there's really more action in the commercial than there is in the film itself. It has no humor whatsoever. The only aliens we see are scavenger drones. The beginning and end narration by Morgan Freeman is wholly without introductory or climactic value. The survival of the son is sheer pictorial violence perpetrated by the film upon the audience, who by the end of the film are thinking about asking for their money back. And please, has anyone had enough screeching by Dakota? When I saw Independence Day in the theater my expectations were low, and the film delivered a monster return of entertainment. Here, my expectations were still fairly low, and the film delivered zilch. The atmospheric grayness of story, acting, direction, and special effects combine to create a null field around this production. I couldn't give it a lower grade, nor could I have derived any less entertainment from it. Frankly, a zero out of ten. Just a piece of *****e.

Different expectations - War of the Worlds Reviews

Do not get the wrong expectations when you go to see this movie. Too many people are smashing it because it was not what they expected or wanted. See the 1953 original. First thing said. It pays homage to it by keeping the main story. By the main story I mean, there is no point to the alien invasion. War of the worlds is not supposed to be based upon the how or why. If it were to be explained, it would be taken further away from the original, and would have become a longer, boring movie, with useless facts that you would come to find you didn't really care about anyway. "I want to know why they are attacking us. It's stupid not to know!" Just shut up. Every movies reason for that is just as bad as not knowing. What do you want? To know we as earth made to much noise and awoke the aliens and made them grumpy? Come on. Let it go. Another note, the end is just like the original, maybe it leaves you feeling like there was no big final bang, no macho air force sequences where the mother ship is destroyed, which is all so predictable and foolish anyway. The end is clever and salutes all mankind. The original was made during the Cold War Era and had alot of the fighting back. In this age of terrorism, Speilberg taps into the fear and the survival. It is a survival movie. There are no heroes. If Tom Cruise is not made perfectly into the ultimate hero, thats because he's not supposed to be. It's the tale of an average joe, not of the man whos supposed to stop the world from invasion and receive a Gold medal from the president atop the rubble of what is left of the country. The only thing Tom Cruise is supposed to receive is the respect that he becomes responsible and caring towards his children. The movie is filled with amazing effects, decent acting, and a good old tale of "Dear God, things are going to hell so I need to keep my kids safe." All I have to say are there are certain things people need to let go of and realize it's a movie. Do not be so critical, and have fun exploring the what if. Put yourself in the postion of the characters. Let the movie take you away. That is what movies are for. So I would recommend seeing it, but not before the old one, and don't place your standards to high. And if you think it's so bad, get your fat ass up and make a better one. That's right. I went there.

Ending sucked - War of the Worlds Reviews

This movie is a waste of 10 dollars... the ending will leave you shocked, never did you think something so crappy can come out of Steven Spielberg, i say go watch Herbie: Fully Loaded that is better i bet

Don't believe the hype..... - War of the Worlds Reviews

I love Steven Speilberg as well as MOST movies with Tom Cruise, however I feel this movie should have delivered more than just hype. The original movie was new and exciting so it's not easy task to bring the same old story to the big screen and yet still make it new. The machines and the introduction to the movie was pretty well done, however after that, it's as though Steven ran out of ideas. When I was expecting War of the Worlds, I instead recieved Dakota Flemming's version of Jurassic Park but with Alien Tripods instead of Raptors. After 2 and a half hours of movie, instead of being happy in the end that EVERYONE in the family makes it out alive, I was simply excited to be able to go home and take out the trash since tomorrow is trash day.

Predictable - War of the Worlds Reviews

When you say Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg in one movie, I am sure you would want a superb masterpiece in your hands right? I am deeply disappointed with the movie storyline and expected more from it. Spielberg have done Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, etc... hoping that it would resembles the same pace of alien encounter but this time thinking it would sort of like Independence Day. Tom Cruise is a very good actor but I prefer if he would have became Rambo with guns blazing against alien invaders but no we need to tackle family relations, human element and anything muggles do. The action sequence was very predictable and forgive me if I am not a sci-fi afficionado but the movie should have action packed and thrown the human side out.

So predictable! - War of the Worlds Reviews

The movie is too long... It starts off good, but within 10 minutes... it's all tom cruise with his Jerry Maguire face. It begins boring and ends boring. I want my money back! Save your money and wait till it gets to video.

Visuals were good, but poor direction and effort. - War of the Worlds Reviews

Good visuals, but what happened to the story. Let?s start with the little things. As the movie starts everyone sees a storm coming. Cruise gets the idea to watch it from the back yard to get a better view. Then like dominoes, the other families start to go into their back yards. It starts at Tom?s house and goes down the street one by one. I thought I was watching a Cingular wireless ?more bars? commercial. Then as everyone sees the storm of a lifetime approaching, not a single person takes down the laundry that is hanging on the clothesline. (Every house has laundry on the line, but not one person takes theirs down.) Then after an electromagnetic pulse hits, nothing works. That I can believe, but yet the one thing that does still work is this guy?s camcorder. Afterwards, they get to safety where the power still works, but does anyone turn on the news or a radio to find out what?s going on to get a plan for safety? No! Then as they try to drive to a Ferry to cross a river, everyone attacks the Tom?s car only. Breaking out the windows and trying to kill them to get it, but when Tom gets to the ferry there are other working cars there and I did not see another car that had damage. Later, as the military is taking up a battle position on top of a ridge to fight the aliens, there appears to be more civilians running towards the battle than away from it? Come on, after all the destruction everyone has already seen! There were other similar situations like the ones just mentioned, but you get the idea. The writing and direction is flawed to say the least. Lots of action, but no story; unless Spielberg was creating a story about the dumbest but luckiest family in the world!

Buyer beware - please read - War of the Worlds Reviews

This movie was much better under it's original title "independence day" back in 1998. Ladies BEWARE, there is ALOT of blood and gore in this film. I expected more from Spielberg, but it's like he took the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and put an alien theme too it. Also, it's tough to take Cruise seriously after all his recent press coverage and idiotic diatribes on the value of Rx drugs. Honestly, I think the reason he was in the news so much is they realized they won't break even on the $200 million budget, so they are parading Cruise around in the news to try to drive sheep to the theatre. Grade F. Wait for video

Nonsensical, offensive, inane, boring claptrap! - War of the Worlds Reviews

I thought War of the Worlds would be a cool, trippy movie to go see last night. Boy, was I ever wrong. I will say this about the movie: it's very pretty. There is barely a shot in the movie that isn't an explosion of cool shapes and colors. The aliens are very stylish, if incredibly stupid. Their spider tanks are cooler than they are. And that, unfortunately, is the only positive thing that can be said about this movie. When I read Stephanie Zacharek's review at Salon, I thought that she needed to get out more, and stop being so bitter about a bit of summer fluff--but she was right. This movie is offensive. It tries to pull those ol' 9/11 heart strings in the most blatant, cheesy, downright insulting manner possible. Nothing anybody in the movie, human or alien, does makes any sense at all. Not a single one of the characters is anything but a stupid, grating, asinine moron. The acting is horrible. There might, possibly, somewhere on this earth, be somebody who could read these lines believably, but Spielberg didn't hire any of them. The only exceptions are Tim Robbins as a creepy crazy guy and Morgan Freeman's two minutes of voiceover that frames the movie. Dakota Fanning should perhaps not be blamed too much for her performance, as the few deliverable lines she has she delivers well; the rest, unfortunately, is just a bunch of screaming. The only thing worse than the characters and the dialogue is the plot, a nonsensical story about aliens who have spent a million years planning an invasion of earth only to forget their inoculations on the way, who come here to Kill All Humans but do a spectacularly bad job of it. Or, perhaps, they came here to farm humans and for some reason decide to kill a lot of the produce instead. They have tanks with shields that don't work if they operator gets sick, and prefer to individually investigate each house in the country rather than, say, just smashing all of them, which they evince plenty of ability to do. If the aliens are dumb, the humans are not only moronic, but also mean-spirited and even more self-destructive than they seem to be in real life. NOTHING ANYONE DOES IN THIS MOVIE MAKES SENSE. Not even in an immediate sense. Run unarmed into instant and certain death to see something you can see from where you are? Sounds like a plan. Attempt to blow up a tripod tank that has previously shown itself invulnerable, and is also the only thing keeping you from a nasty 200 foot fall onto hard earth and trees? Brilliant! The offensive part, though, is the theme. If I thought that this movie was a sly comment or satire on America's reaction to 9/11, I wouldn't be offended, but it isn't. It can't be satirizing America's response because it doesn't in the least resemble it. It depicts plenty of meanness in human nature, but it's way too exaggerated and cartooney to make any point other than, perhaps, if you were to consider only the worst possible side of human nature and extract all the rationality, compassion, and, in fact, drive for self-preservation, then you can paint a pretty bleak picture. But goodness will win in the end after all, for no apparent reason. So, this movie plays off 9/11 quite a bit, but doesn't bother to make a point with any of it. It's just a bunch of cheap theatrics designed to put butts in the seats, and that's just wrong. The fact of the matter is that all of these things are the way they are because Spielberg has zero respect for the intelligence of his audience. He's never been one to make movies that tax the brain too heavily, but this is a new nadir of stupidity. Why make it make sense when it'll only be watched by people who wouldn't understand the sense it makes? Why go for a subtle Tivo plug when you can just insert a 15-second commercial right in the middle of an establishing scene? Why try to say something about anything when you can just steal images from horrible things that happened and get the same emotional impact, because people are dumb? Well, people are dumb. Really dumb. But, even then, they're not as stupid as Spielberg seems to think . I don't think I'll watch another Spielberg flick again. Which is a shame, because it really was a very pretty movie.

I cannot belive the studios actually liked the end - War of the Worlds Reviews

What the hell were they thinking, that was a horrible ending, the way it was rushed and so damn anticlimatic, I cannot belive this came out of Spielberg, so so pathetic.

The movie was great - War of the Worlds Reviews

I am not sure why some people are saying that this movie was disappointing, but are we watching the same one. I was delighted to see the movie having a human element and making it believable in times of a real invasion. Making other movies like Armageddon, Independence day, etc looks like kid's stuff even if they entertain you far more. I guess the true sci-fi afficionados would understand the complexity of H.G.Wells and with Steven Spielberg bringing it up one notch higher than anyone with his own vision to the story. Two thumbs up to Tom Cruise and hope that the Oscars would finally give him a best actor award for his outstanding performance. Oh said and done, the movie would be a true enjoyment as I await for the next big one: THE FANTASTIC FOUR.

How could you give this anything but an f - War of the Worlds Reviews

Stupid 1. All electronics are dead but a video camra works 2.no one else can make a car work but Tom 3. how many times can you break the vans windows 4. Deaf news camra man hears them coming. 5. News van with all its electronics still working 6. Van survives distruction at kids moms 7. Why do they spray our blood 8. Lets just hold on to tom so they dont kill him 9. The boy makes it home to Grandma's before Tom 10. Grandma's is the only street in the world that is without a scratch I will stop at ten. This is one of the top 5 worst movies, in terms of story line, I have ever seen. I have nothing good to say about it at all not sure what movie some people went to for this to have a B rating!!!!!!!

Tom cruise's best movie ever! - War of the Worlds Reviews

Ray Ferrier(Cruise) Is A Working Class Dead Beat Dad Living In New Jersey With A Daughter Named Rachel(Fanning) And A Son Named Robbie(Chatwin). While Ray Is Watching His Kids Something Crazy Happens And No One Believes What Is Happening. Aliens Are Attacking The World And Ray Must Defend His Children From The Unthinkable. The Effects In This Movie Are Amazing And The Acting Is Great. Props To Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin And A Little Bit Of Tim Robbins.

Horrible. - War of the Worlds Reviews

Absolutely horrible. I can't believe that much money was spent on a movie that takes a shortcut to finish itself off. Horrible.

A visual masterpeice - War of the Worlds Reviews

War of the Worlds has probably some of the best special effects i have ever seen. Steven Spielberg did an excellent job at creating some absolutely mind blowing scenes of massive desruction, and they almost felt real. War of the Worlds is one of most exciting and fun mvovies released this year and it is definately worth seeing. However there are some things that arent good about this movie. 1) I never really got involved in this story. Although the actors are all really good, and the visuals are amazing, I didn't care that much about the fate of the characters, and the movie didnt have a lasting effect on me. 2) Nothing is really explained by the end of the movie. There are so many unanswered questions by the time the movie ends. the "war" never really ends either- it just stops randomly. Why did the aliens want us dead? What stopped the tripods? What was with our blood? I higly recomend you see war of the worlds, for its wonderful visuals, the perfromances, and Steven Spielbergs directing. This movie is also a very good story of family, and waht it means to be a family. Definately go see this one.

Bad science - War of the Worlds Reviews

The trouble with remaking a classic in modern times is that in paying hommage to the original you overlook its flaws. The original premise of aliens being undone by nature rather than man spoke volumes on man's place on Earth. This message is more pertinant today than it ever was back then so I can forgive the naive notion that aliens would fly billions of miles to earth only to forget their space suits. After all, we've all been warned a thousand times to not drink the water in Mexico, but Montezuma still has his revenge. My issues are with Spielberg's choices of updated science within the film. Why bury the ships underground for a million years if you want to take over the planet. Wouldn't it have been easier to take over back then without all those pesky humans running around? If the ships were placed there back then, wouldn't they have known that there were microbes and viruses that were harmful to them? If the pilots are fired via little ships into the ground where is the mother ship? Perhaps this is actually more of a prequel to Independence Day (after all the aliens do look a lot alike). Why are humans vaporized but their clothes remain intact? Clearly a cool effect but bad science. I want those PJs next time I fall asleep with a lit cigarette. And finally what is it with the human blood and red ivy? He never makes an effort to explain that. Teraforming of some kind?? Why vaporize people then?? And finally, why the weak, feel good, ending that unlike Signs, evokes no emotion whatsoever. Did they run out of money or anything to say? Everthing seems like Sunday morning on Baker street and how the hell did the kid get back alive. The aliens spend an hour of screen time screwing around with the father and daughter in the basement of the house, but let the kid go on his merry way in the midst of army personnel? When will they learn that in sci fi its all about the story and less about the dramatic. Rattle off the 5 best sci fi movies in your mind and I promise you the acting isn't what you remember.

Speilberg lays a stinker - War of the Worlds Reviews

What a shame. Spielberg takes a good story and slaughters it. Poor direction and bad writing really send this one up on the *Stink-O-Meter?". Spielberg needs to spend time studying mob mentality and panic. Mobs do not move orderly and calmly. Most "crap hits the fan" situations bring out the absolute worst in people and LOTS more firearms in private hands. People do not wander willingly into battle areas... They flee them. As far as the script, Tom's character tries too hard to be a bad father and the laughs are so hard to get, they have to be repeated. The alien's plan is not believeable. While the defeat of the aliens goes acording to the story by Wells, it is not believeable. Aliens would not lose. Spielberg should have taken more creative license and added a few suprises. I was tempted to walk out, as I had seen just about everything in the movie before in other movies, but I had nothing better to do. The visuals, while realistic, lack creativity and were begged, borrowed, and stolen from other movies. The aliens look remarkably like the aliens from Independance Day as do the alien vehicles look like ID4's mother ship. Tom delivers a poor performance. He relies too much on the trademarked Cruise smile and not enough on acting skills. His character makes you want to reach out and smack him. Dakota was wonderful and the only reason I give Acting a C. Nothing more to be said there. If you have a good home theater, wait till it comes out on PPV or DVD. Save your money. While sheeple will flock to see the movie, it does not deserve to be the blockbuster it tries so hard to be.

Unfair and dishonest promotion - War of the Worlds Reviews

You can read the other reviews here for the particulars, but as somebody who has paid to see this movie, I have a responsibility to do what the media and general public did not do for me: provide a warning. This movie is a huge disappointment from start to finish, and only gets worse from the first moment that you frown and say to yourself, "What the ****?" For the first time in my adult life, I feel like I have really been cheated at a movie theater, and I wish there was some way I could get my money and those two hours back. The people responsible have certainly mastered the fine art of promotion. Thanks a lot, bastards.

Weak and disappointing - War of the Worlds Reviews

Tom Cruise rarely fails to annoy me, whether acting coked-up in his personal life or on screen he's always manic and frenzied to the point that you just want to smack him. This movie really proves to be no exception to the rule, either, as Cruise runs around as a frenzied, one-dimensional hotshot good guy. Hey, what a stretch from his usual role as a frenzied, one-dimensional hotshot good guy. Still, don't think that I'm purely colored by some grudge against Cruise in my dislike of this movie. The whole thing has been done to absolute death, and far better, in other movies. What we get here is a standard, illogical but visually-stirring attempt at a summer blockbuster a la Independence Day, Armageddon, etc. but it's just not as good as either of those movies, not that they're works of art. Overall, if you're going with the thought of seeing a great movie in mind, you should seriously look elsewhere or just watch Batman again.

Spielburg's worst film yet - War of the Worlds Reviews

Personally, i really did not enjoy the movie at all. First of all the movie had no storyline, the only storyline that i got is that the aliens attacked the earth then couple of days later got sick and all died. There is very little action, most of the film they were all running and hiding. At the end of it all it left me very confused and unentertained. I would like a refund if possible.

War of the worlds is good - War of the Worlds Reviews

Well the signs going into this movie were pretty good. Critics loved the movie plus we got Spielberg and Cruise teaming up so I was expecting a good one. I t was definitely in my top 10 list of movies to see over the summer. Basically this movie does not go very far from the original version released some decades back. Same plot just updated in terms of time and technology. I always grow tired of movies whose main selling point are the effects. I loved the minimalist special effects in this one. This however is still effective in getting the message of fear and dread across. In terms of the acting, I thought that Dakota Fanning did a great job. It?s actually quite hard to believe that she is only 11 years old but can do have a masterful performance. I can still remember the first time I saw her in a episode of CSI some years back and she has certainly progressed since then. I thought that Tom Cruise did a good enough of a job as the caring father trying to protect his children Nothing extraordinary but just enough. Nothing much to say about supporting other than that Tim Robbins should have been given longer screen time. I also quite liked the way they were able to put across the theme on family relations and how it is tested in stressful situations. I guess my main gripe and I fell that many will feel this too is that the end came rather abruptly and that how it was all resolved just felt unsatisfactory.

War of the stupid ending - War of the Worlds Reviews

Okay...I dragged the entire family out on a week night to see-what they portrayed as-a great movie...Ummmm...far from it!!! Let me start off by saying the movie moved way too fast in the beginning and then dragged on througout the end. Tom Cruise' acting was shotty. Dakota Fanning did a WONDERFUL job, however, I think she is adorable. The aliens in the movie where soooooooo fake-looking its not even funny. But whats even funnier is that Tom is invincable to the aliens as he dodges the laser beams every moment throughout the movie. Oh, and dont you think if aliens were really attacking, people would be RUNNING instead of sitting back and watching the ground come up from underneath them. COME ON!!!! Wait...wait...something even funnier? THE ENDING...HA HA HA....the enitre nation is under attack and decimated except for the little area where Dakotas mother and family await her arrival UNHARMED. Its as though the aliens chose not to destroy just that little section of the nation..."yeah lets spare some lives over here". Then, to top it all off the friggin son made it home safe??? Huh? Are you for real Spielberg???? SUCKY WASTE OF MONEY.

See it to lean why not to trust big names any more - War of the Worlds Reviews

I could not wait until the day time to hit the theatre so I had to go to the midnight premier, I don?t know from where to start but I believe this movie will flop for the following reasons: 1- Earth is under heavy attack from UFO?s without showing any reasons for their attack , was it just to destroy us ? they waited 1 million year just to destroy earth ??? why ? 2- They were feeding on human?s blood ??? they were waiting million year just to drink blood with its bacteria & die like idiots .COME ON 3- The line of events will lose its international steam , the movie did not show what is happening in the other countries or not even in e other states , it showed what is happening where tom cruse is . so it looked like aliens came from all that distance just to kill tom cruise and his family and chase him until Boston. 4- Some acting scenes were not good at all , like tom seeing his daughter is about to be taken by strangers and he is still holding his son legs ? even cats wont allow this to happen & here is one more scene : aliens waiting for million years under ground to pop up searching the room looking for something to drink or to eat ? then playing with a bicycle HA ? without knowing what it is ? they were monitoring earth for millions of years & they don?t know what to eat when they attack , what to drink & the most important thing the bicycle. One more scene when and I think it?s the scandal of a life time for Steven : while every single machine in town has stoped during the attack there was a video camera working shooting the happenings. 5-if UFO?s wants just to destroy earth they would do that from their planet with one big bomb . no need to send 1000000 UFO?s 6- End is very stupid with all the respect but most of people are very simple and they will need some one to explain , I don?t think Spelberg is directing his movies for geniuses only . away from that , the first 25 minutes were the best in the movie . after that its slow boring and it will flop . thanks for reading this review Mohammad Bsaiso Dubai - UAE ****.com

What in the world was steven spielberg thinking! - War of the Worlds Reviews

What a deception! I?ve been waiting this movie for so long and it was like a spank on the face. Imagine "Signs", "Alien" and "The Day After Tomorrow" put together in a movie that goes on and on never explaining why things are or aren?t happening! More than 20 people left the theater in a sold out screening; before the movie ended. After "Minority Report" I thought that Cruise and Spielberg will amaze me once more with a great movie. Instead they delivered what will probably become the worst movie of the Summer.

Damm, not as good as i hoped. - War of the Worlds Reviews

Raced off to see this movie straight after work in Australia. All excited. Now I am all flat. Plot- bit silly. Why would Marshians leave there machines buried in the ground for a 1 million years. Why didnt we dig one up when they are only 10 meters underground in the cities. Why not take over the planet a million years ago. HG Well book had a far better beginning. ie. They came in space crafts.Ending was dull as well. Seemed to end 20 minutes earlier than what you expected. I was like hey, lets just jump to the ending of the movie here. Where was the excitement ? EG. Ferry crossing scene, dull and boring. Where was the Thunderchild in the orginal book at the ferry ? !!!! or aleast a police boat with a cop with a hand gun would have added something. Special Effects Yes, they are good but not on a macro scale. Where were the scenes of huge battles of the USA taking on the tripods ? Two tanks a a few hummers on a rigid fighting stuff you can't see..... boring. Overall Rating C-. My advice is to go and buy the HG Wells book.

I want those 2 hours of my life back.. - War of the Worlds Reviews

Reasons why this movie blows goats(sorry if i give a lot away but that shouldn't matter because you should not see this movie): 1. All of the electronics were made useless so how could that video camera that was used to show the people running from the initial tripod eruption work? 2. Was Tom Cruise driving the Batmobile?! How did he have the secret to make that minivan work and why couldn't anybody but the army figure this out? Also, how did it survive that plane chaos that went down when they were at the mom's house? 3. How did the son not die?! 4. How did they all magically WALK to the grandparents townhouse in Boston?! And were they the only people on the block to survive. Come on people... 5. Though Tim Robbins is great, every scene he had was just stupid and started the movie on its inevitable pitfall. Is there any reason he was hollering to get Cruise and Fanning in his cellar? And why did he stop with them? Not to mention the awful fact that Cruise murders him.. 6. There was nothing mind-blowing about it. You wait and wait for something but you don't know what, and then it never comes.. 7. Probably the most unfulfilling movie experience i have had in the theater

Why do i have to turn my brain off? - War of the Worlds Reviews

*** Spoilers contained within review *** Just a few questions: 1. If you are plotting to take over a planet for millions of years, and you have technology beyond human imagination, don't you use that technology to make sure that the planet is habitable by your species... BEFORE YOU INVADE?!?!? 2. Are the aliens Red Sox fans? Boston seems untouched compared to very rural areas. 3. Does everyone HAVE TO LIVE? Even after they separate to make a run for it because they "Have to see"? 4. In all the geological surveys, oil drilling, underground pipe laying, etc, etc, we humans NEVER came across one of these dormant killing machines hidden beneath the Earth. 5. Why wait a million years to take over the planet? Did 999,999 B.C. not work out for ya? 6. In the end, I know the alien is dying as it's crawling out of it's capsule, BUT WHY NOT SHOOT IT ANYWAY? It just helped out killing 5M of your friends and family. Aren't you angry about that? Uggh.

Id4-signs/et x taken + close encounters - War of the Worlds Reviews

Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier is the best there is in terms of endearing himself and no matter what role he portrays he always fit it like a tee. I know that his role here may not be as lucrative in terms of showmanship like in The Last Samurai, Mission Impossible and even Top Gun. However, he can still muster enough credentials to believe who he is. His performance can be attributed to his Jerry Maguire role of trying to find his niche in times of difficulty and despair. I always wonder why he hasn?t won any best actor award in the Oscar which such performance of excellence for each outing he makes. Dakota Fanning is an exemplary child actress and makes you think that the movie is a continuity of her role in Taken, but this time around she portrays the role of any given child in that scenario. The movie was a little bit grainy and sometimes too dark, but it sets the mood of the action sequences that arises afterwards. I won?t give up any spoiler but the special effects are quite inventive (but once you see Star Wars everything looks ordinary anyway) for this kind of Sci-Fi genre. It showcased a combination of Independence Day minus Signs divided by E.T. and multiplied by Taken plus Close Encounters of the Third Kind Overall, the movie was quite entertaining but the human element is the basic fulcrum of the film and center onto one character that bridges the tenacity to never give up no matter how dire the circumstances are. I guess you would say that it is not your typical popcorn movie since it delves on the soulful characteristic of man facing something extraordinary. I hope you would enjoy the film as I do but some were quite disappointed that it should be plain action and dump the human element. At the end of the day, it all depends on your point of view but the real reason is still to enjoy and relax and take your mind elsewhere to the wonderful world of Spielberg. PS: It is 100 times better than Signs.

Dear alien high-council president. - War of the Worlds Reviews

Dear Alien High Council President, I am a lowly pilot that was deployed to "Earth" via the lightning to get rid of the humans. However, I found that my deadliest ray guns failed on cotton clothing but suprisingly melted steel and humans with high accuracy. Despite being bullet-resistant, I think our tentacles should be made axe-proof. Just slightly more, sir. Also we seem to have some difficulties with our human suction device as a few people apparently figured out a way to defeat one, by simply "holding on" to each other. I propose we execute humans on mass instead of individually killing them with our mightiest "anal probing tentacles." Also I request we re-calibrate our targeting mechanisms as one human easily seemed to dodge every single death ray at him. Perhaps we should also make our 120 feet tripod walks outpace a 2 legged 6-foot tall human. We seem to have great difficulty catching people. From captured earthlings, we found out these creatures have a procedure called a "Vaccination" before sending them to war. I highly recommend we assimilate these procedures before we are sent to war. I also recommend we stop the practice of our sickened soldiers coughing on every other soldier because apparently we all got sick at the SAME EXACT time and shut down simulataneously. I hope this letter reaches you, High-council President. Also please re-configure our shields so that it suddenly doesn't turn off when the pilot gets ill. Yours dearly, Alien # 135-SZ35.

Amazing visuals, but as dumb as independence day - War of the Worlds Reviews

This film had incredible effects, and a typically great perfromance from Dakota Fanning. This story was nothing new, and the "fear" we're supposed to get from this movie wasn't there. The absolute last minute of the movie was incredible bad and defies any kind of logic -- but what the hell do you expect from Speilberg, Schindler's List? This film won't be worth anything on video unless you've got a kick-ass home theatre. See it in the theatre, but be prepared for a popcorn movie. It ain't really Science Fiction, and it's really not that good a movie. Still lots a people meet their maker and the destruction is super-cool. See it, but wait until the crowds die down -- you'll miss nothing because there are no surprises.

Popcorn fun - War of the Worlds Reviews

The film screams Spielberg. It transitions seamlessly from giant action to little moments. Unfortunately, going into the movie, I knew how it ended, having seen the 1957 version years ago on tv. But as such, I was glad to see very very nice touches in the creature design. If you plan to see this movie, be warned: it is much more about the family unit than it is about the invasion (we're not even given a reason for it, except that the invaders were jealous of us... somehow) or how the world reacted to it. But that's not to say that there's no action. The first half of the film plus is pretty much non-stop edge-of-your-seat awesomeness. What's that? You want death rays? You got 'em! Giant lumbering robots? Check! Earthquakes? Explosions? Massive body count? Check, check... er, well... not check on the last one, and you'll understand if you see the movie. Suffice to say that the invading force has a few different ways of... disposing of bodies. If you've seen commercials or trailers, you've probably gathered that Ray (Tom Cruise) is trying to get himself and his two kids away from this. And that's where the film stays. It's very straightforward and linear, with nothing to steer the plot off-track. The characters are sidelined for a little bit while hiding out with a crazy man, played by Tim Robbins. Incidently, considering my general distaste for Mr. Robbins, there was one scene involving him that occured behind closed doors that I would have liked to see. But oh well. I enjoyed the interaction between father and son (especially since the son was a Sox fan) because they both acted toward each other as I do toward everyone else: as a jerk. It was as if I stepped into some weird universe and there were two clones of mine barking back and forth at each other, and I admit, I felt a little outperformed. But while the son was interesting, the daughter (Dakota Fanning) had little more to do during the first half than scream. And WOW does she have a set of lungs. Sometimes I wished that Cruise had turned around to the backseat and smacked her and said "SHUT UP! YOU ARE NOT HELPING!" But then she probably would've screamed more, so, oh well. At one point during the film, the son, Robbie, tells Ray that his only motivation in going to Boston is to dump them (the kids) off on their mom so he can worry about himself. I gotta tell ya, I wouldn't blame him. Earlier I said that this film screams Spielberg. Well it does in one more way that kinda... irks me. There are plenty of people dying EVERYWHERE, but in true rifle-to-walkie-talkie fashion, anything that might show the act of bleeding is conveniently hidden from view. If you're going to allude to a grotesque happening, you might as well show it. Some, if not most, will disagree with me on this one, in the vein of the film not being a gore genre film. Eh, whatever. Blood does not a gore film make. Although, though he didn't come right out and reveal it, the "dust" that's all over Cruise toward the beginning of the film is a nice touch. Overall, it's a fun flick. Is it a great film? Nah. There's nothing new, nothing innovative, and nothing to make you think (except maybe how to plan against an alien invasion). If you plan to see it, understand that it really is just a summer popcorn flick. With that in mind, you probably won't be disappointed.