by John R » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:32 am
One of the last films i can remember seeing is 'War of the Worlds' with Tom Cruise. Thoroughly enjoyed the film for about an hour and a half, and then the ending just spoilted it. I know its a remake of an old film but i never did see that. Still the way it happends just comes so suddenly its hard to take the film seriously after that. You can pick on so many flaws with the story. The main ones i found were that if the aliens are so much more intelligent than us, why did they wait until the year 2000 to invade us when, being buried under the ground, they could have wiped us out in say, 100AD, long before we polluted the earth and used up all the raw materials, or before we developed nuclear weapons etc. And also (if you've not seen the film then don't read the next part!) they seem to die from a reaction with our air, or atmospheare? Well you'd have thought they'd have done their homework/research before trying to invade us wouldn't you? Obviously not, ...these were clearly stupid aliens. I would have liked it more if they had killed us all, but that was all down to H.G.Wells. I like things to be realistic and believable in the most part,
I've not read the book, so if i've got it all wrong, someone please tell me. Overall i'd give it a 6 out of 10. Would have been an 8 if not for the ending.