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I read the book of The War of the Worlds last year since they were giving it away free with the Guardian, but felt no real compulsion to see the film until the chance came around recently.

While the book seemed fantastic, the film just seems farcical. Between the cheesy special effects and the unbelievable characters, this movie served only to annoy me. By trying to tie in a “modern dysfunctional family” story, the sci-fi story is missing*, and replaced with, nothing. So many features of the tale told in the film were simply implausible (ignoring that the plot itself deals with an alien invasion) – so, Tom Cruise has the only car? And there are just a couple of guns? Even the vague Donnie Darko reference couldn’t save this disgrace. H.G. Wells would’ve cried.

*indeed, all the worthwhile science fiction elements seem to be missing.

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