Movie Review: War of the Worlds (2005)
Special Effects and Tom Cruise
I will say immediately that it is definitely worth
seeing.
That being said, it is sad that it takes an invasion from Mars imperiling all of the planet to bring a divorced father back in touch with his children.
The special effects are amazing! The tripods, the aliens, all very well done.
The story feels like that of the book, though it is different. This is not a third person tale. Like the book, this is the story of one man's attempt to survive, pulled from time to time to another character within his realm of influence, in this case, his son and daughter. The writers did a marvelous job of waging a demoralizing war on the humans. I won't go into details because, quite frankly, they are pretty gross, but an assault of this nature on modern society would indeed kill the planet.
I have only one negative question: If the Martians planted their tripods millions of years ago, why didn't they just come on down millions of years ago and direct evolution on this planet? Dinosaurs and primates would certainly have put up far less resistance than the evolved humans. So, besides the whole ignoring of microscopic agents issue, minus a million points for Martian strategy.
Tom Cruise is not as good as his leading female, Dakota Fanning, playing his 11 year old daughter. She does an amazing job of reacting to these horrible scenes of warfare that, I'm hoping, weren't actually needing to be acted out for her. She is fabulous! I would love to see her as Valentine Wiggin (Note to Mr. Speilberg- Ender's Game, baby!)
The final word? For what this film is, I give it a perfect score, five out of five, but see this film in the theatre. It is going to fail miserably on DVD, not because it's not good, but quite the opposite- it is a huge film! I can't imagine trying to see the long shots of the tripods on a television, even a 50" plasma.
That being said, it is sad that it takes an invasion from Mars imperiling all of the planet to bring a divorced father back in touch with his children.
The special effects are amazing! The tripods, the aliens, all very well done.
The story feels like that of the book, though it is different. This is not a third person tale. Like the book, this is the story of one man's attempt to survive, pulled from time to time to another character within his realm of influence, in this case, his son and daughter. The writers did a marvelous job of waging a demoralizing war on the humans. I won't go into details because, quite frankly, they are pretty gross, but an assault of this nature on modern society would indeed kill the planet.
I have only one negative question: If the Martians planted their tripods millions of years ago, why didn't they just come on down millions of years ago and direct evolution on this planet? Dinosaurs and primates would certainly have put up far less resistance than the evolved humans. So, besides the whole ignoring of microscopic agents issue, minus a million points for Martian strategy.
Tom Cruise is not as good as his leading female, Dakota Fanning, playing his 11 year old daughter. She does an amazing job of reacting to these horrible scenes of warfare that, I'm hoping, weren't actually needing to be acted out for her. She is fabulous! I would love to see her as Valentine Wiggin (Note to Mr. Speilberg- Ender's Game, baby!)
The final word? For what this film is, I give it a perfect score, five out of five, but see this film in the theatre. It is going to fail miserably on DVD, not because it's not good, but quite the opposite- it is a huge film! I can't imagine trying to see the long shots of the tripods on a television, even a 50" plasma.
Posted: Thu - July 28, 2005 at 09:33 PM
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