All righty, time for another amazing review of a movie. I’m sure you are all familiar with H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. Well, this is the most recent video adaptation of it, at least that I’m aware of. Anyway, it starts out with Tom Cruise and two whiny kids hanging out with him (their separated dad.) So while that’s happening, there’s this weird storm, and something cool falls to Earth. It falls in multiple places, too. What could it be? Gold? Transformers? Health care? No! In fact, it’s a bunch of killer tripod robots, manned by aliens. (They are not from Mars, read the wiki.) They start laz0ring everybody, and woe and despair fills all. Mr. Cruise and bratty kids try to escape to Boston, but are defeated by an angry mob tearing their car apart. The bratty boy goes running off with the army to help die, and the bratty girl goes with Mr. Cruise to continue to Boston to get to mom. They encounter a few more surprises (which I won’t ruin for you), and then eventually reach the end, yay, happy ending. It actually followed the book somewhat well, I thought. I mean, it stayed within the general plot lines. But whatever.
The effects and camera work were fantastic (It’s Steven Spielberg here), and I thought that the fact that people got blasted into little bits of dust by a giant laz0r was AWESOME. (Also the part with Tom freaking out that he was covered in dust and that dust was people made me laugh). I give it a 4 out of 5, mainly because the bratty kids wouldn’t stop whining.