Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Movie - War of the Worlds

Maybe I had too high hopes before I watched the movie, I mean, this is Spielberg, we are talking about…..there is just too much hype about this movie.

Anyway, in terms of effects, this movie is nowhere compared to George Lucas’ Star Wars or even Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings….Hmm…as for character development, it’s practically non-existent. The only character Spielberg had focussed on is Tom Cruise and we sort of see him growing from an irresponsible father to a dad who would do his utmost for his children. But thats about it.

Plot? It’s flimsy with too many loop holes. Machines embedded into our earth since before mankind existed? Come on….after all the deep earth drilling, digging, construction mankind had done, you think we would have hit something…The ending is just too convenient as well…I’m not going to say anything about that, watch it if you have nothing much to do on a weekend….it’s still nice to watch Tom running around….

Next movie to look our for? ‘Fantasic 4’and ‘King Kong’. It looks good.