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War Of The Worlds

More like, Bore of The Worlds

• Premise

It started well and seemed to be a metaphor for terrorism (the way the robots attacked from within), but that angle didn’t develop and, ultimately, the movie didn’t offer anything new in the alien invasion sub-genre.

I mean, it’s quite shocking that this happened with all the talent and money behind the flick. It was a whole movie covering just 20% of what Independence Day did. Despite the flaws of logic in that movie, it was fully developed and lots of fun. Here, Tom Cruise was on the run the whole time, hardly any character arc; it’s hard to say keeping his daughter alive was a big step for him since that’s such a primal drive…and worst of all-

• End

After all the (repetitive) efforts to stop the machines, they simply crumbled on their own. A-yo! The Spielberg curse of Deus ex machina struck again. Same problem as Jurassic Park.

• Little thing, Casting

It was hard to believe Cruise was a father with a teenage son so much bigger than him.

Opening attack set to the Benny Hill theme song.

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