War Of The Worlds

Aliens and guns and Tom Cruise, oh my!

THE GOOD

Steven Speilberg of course has tons of special effects, like buildings being smashed through, windows blowing out in stores, and even the super-scene where the alien Tripod crashes straight through the cathedral, sending bricks and stained glass windows everywhere.

I finally found out why people think Dakota Fanning can act, because she could in this film. It was a great role for her because she did hers more realistically than anyone else and I usually can’t stand her.

THE BAD

They never explained how some electronic devices worked when the aliens had shut the city down. I noticed right off that though cell phones were killed instantly, there was a guy with a video camera in the streets watching the aliens- taping right away.

Dakota could have really done without that last, final, shrill scream 2 minutes from the end of the movie. The last thirty or so shrieks were quite enough, thank you very much.

THE REST

Aliens who have been hiding war machines under our feet and now arrive to power them up so they can eat our insides and then use our blood to fertilize plants on the earth is not your usual movie. Luckily, we don’t see the extraction process, but we do get a glimpse of the blood-covered fields from the spray the aliens made over the landscape. Yech.

Anyhow, good film if you want to see a bunch of special effects, which is why I got it.

WAR OF THE WORLDS – PG-13 – TOM CRUISE, DAKOTA FANNING – WATCH TRAILER