War Of The Worlds (DVD)

Ok so you have been waiting to see this film for ages and youve decided to buy it..
Before you spend youre money ask yourself these questions:

Have you seen the origanal War of the worlds?
Have you seen the 2nd and 3rd remakes of this film?
Have you listened to the sound track?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions you are about to be a bit disapointed.

The film has some real obvious flaws, things that are just not part of the story, charachters that arn't the charachters they should be and doing things that others should be doing instead. Confused????? you will be if youve seen the origanal and you watch this.
This is nothing like it should be the aliens land (are born) in a different way, mad people arnt who they should be, the red weed Isn't made from lava???
I understand keeping up with the times has to be done but you can't change the plot to a film.

On the plus side the graphics are great, tripods are origanal but hugely magnificent and the charachters are pretty good at what they do.

On the major down side if you want to hear a little brat screeming for the next 2hrs then be my guest, if you want to see a remake that has takern a turn for the worsed then ok, if you want waste your money on a film thats been modified to the point of changing the basic rules of a story well i think Im gonna leave it there..............

Verdict: save your money, his is the worst tom cruise film ive seen in ages.

excellent special effects but story line very thin, almost a waste of time for talented Cruise and Robbins.

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wanted to get war of the worlds but cost to much got it on ebay cheaoer than the shops, this film kept us on the edge of our seats all night if you have not seen it get

War Of The Worlds (DVD), this is a fantastic special effects flick, well worth a watch starring tom cruise & dakota fanning.

A very overused word but this is - compared to the original - crap ! The storyline meant very little and with the FX at their disposal, this was an utter waste of time & money. I don't know of anyone who liked it.

i like the story and the music and its as good as the orginal well worth money hope they make a follow up 2 it

Drama and suspense excellent, not too cheesy. You are sucked into the story immensely but i think it helped that I knew the basic story only, before I watched. It is a bit scary for children but all in all a good family watch.

Great film but not a patch on the original which i think you will find is what most people will say!
Totally recommend though!

1st the positives - visually superb and now the rest, v disappointing remake, adds nothing new, guess the script writers were either on strike or just hadn't read the book. Maybe the editor got things wrong with the cutting of the film, but it didn't hold together well. Film left me with the impression the film makers were just trying to show Tom Cruise as a action hero.

a remake of the old classic. brilliant special effects a very good sci-fi film. dakota fanning is a star in the making

Great entertainment. Good special effects. Well made version and gripping even if you know the story

i have seen this film once about a year ago and i thought it was absoloutly brilliant and i want to watch it again but everywhere that i found that sells it wants about £10 or more, so im really glad that ive been able to get this item at the bargain price i paid for it, really happy

Taking into account the names involved in making this film I was looking forward to watching it. However, I was disappointed with the casting, acting, glaring holes in the plot and the abrupt ending. Good special effects though.

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Aliens turn America into an abattoir in this intense Steven Spielberg movie. Tom Cruise stars as the dad trying to keep his estranged kids ahead of the wave of destruction
There is one moment in Spielberg's War Of The Worlds where fleeing people pause at a level crossing. Suddenly an express train blazes by, every shattered window billowing fire. That train is this film. By the time the end credits roll, you'll be in the foetal position.

The days when audiences kicked back their heels and laughed at the vaporisation of the White House in Independence Day are long gone. Ironic destruction is passé. War Of The Worlds has a pummelling, exhausting intensity, moving from mass extermination to private claustrophobic horrors - in Spielbergian terms, from the crowds crammed in train carriages in Schindler's List to the taut cat-and-mouse of the director's early Duel. The clichés of the event movie are stripped out. No love interest. No wisecracking buddy. No concerned president pondering the disaster. 'War Of The Worlds' is so influential in all its incarnations that the filmmakers have had to work hard to make sure you haven't seen it all before.

Tom Cruise plays Ray Ferrier, a blue collar guy with an estranged wife, (Otto) and two children, a teenage son Robbie (Chatwin) and young daughter Rachel (Fanning). He's got the kids for the weekend, although his fridge is empty and in the lounge are some engines he's working on. News reports are coming in of strange electrical storms over the Ukraine but everyone is too busy playing the dysfunctional family to notice. Father and son play a tense game of catch in the yard - they both wear baseball caps but for different teams. "You're an asshole. I hate coming here," says Robbie.

The bizarre storms appear over Ray's house, knocking out all the electrics, mobile phones and cars in one enormous magnetic pulse. Ray heads to an intersection in New Jersey, where crowds are gathered round a smoking hole in the ground, just as they did in HG Wells' original novel, where English daytrippers headed out to Horsell Common near Woking for a glimpse of the capsule from outer space. Both Wells and the George Pal-produced 1953 adaptation of the book drew out the crowd's tentative approach to the capsule, sending a priest to make peace with the aliens, but here we cut straight to the destruction. Something bucks and writhes under the road. The tarmac cracks. The front of a church splits off. Out comes the tripod. It emits a foghorn war cry, the bass note from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind's peaceful melody. Then the carnage begins.

As the tripod unleashes its death ray upon the crowds, turning them into a grey dust, we are right back in the fall of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, when clouds of cement particles rolled down Manhattan streets. Ray flees home caked in the ash of his fellow New Yorkers, gathers up the kids and flees in the city's one remaining working car. The struggle to keep his family alive as overpasses explode, ferries capsize and the might of America's army is reduced to one giant fireball leads Ray into very dark moral places, including murder.

Verdict
An unstoppable juggernaut of action and anxiety that will have you blundering from the cinema in a state of nervous exhaustion. Don't expect any soft drink promotional tie-ins with this summer blockbuster.

Lightning storms herald the arrival of alien monsters in Spielberg's refreshingly dark and brutal remix of H G Wells' sci-fi classic The War Of The Worlds. There is no Independence Day bombast here; everything is told through the eyes of Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), an ordinary man whose only concern is the safety of his children (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin). As the world around them is engulfed in flames, survival may be the best they can hope for.

There are three Steven Spielbergs. First up is warm, fuzzy Stevie, who makes life-affirming slush like The Terminal. Then there's Serious Steven, who makes worthy films about Important Issues. And finally, you have psycho Steve, who just wants to creep up behind you and yell "Boo!" Psycho Steve is the guy who made Jaws, Jurassic Park, the best bits of Minority Report, and (yes!) War Of The Worlds. The story may be sci-fi, but the product is a horror film, plain and simple: a brilliantly constructed scaring machine.

"GRIPS YOU LIKE A BEAR-TRAP"

Cruise is on fiery form, exploiting the sharky side of his personality to expose Ray's frailties, and he's well matched by Fanning's panicking child, in a performance so genuinely traumatised that it's uncomfortable to watch. The only bum note is sounded by Tim Robbins, hamming it up dreadfully as a Schnapps-pickled survivalist.

Beginning as an alien reworking of Saving Private Ryan and quickly evolving into a feast of stunning imagery ripped straight from a nightmare, WOTW astounds, alarms and grips you like a bear-trap. Psycho Steve is back. Hold on to your popcorn.

OVERALL, AND AMAZING FILM!
I AM NOT REALLY INTO SI-FI FILMS BUT THIS ONE IS TRULEY THRILL FITTING!
IF YOU BUY THIS FILM I GARUNTEE YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED!!

10/10 !!!!!!!!

i bought this dvd because i have already seen the film and liked it, i have also seen all the previous war of the war films, and can recomend this as the best version.

What a great film. Made by spielberg, so i knew it would be a good film and it does do itself justice after just a few minutes. The film's CGI techniques are barely noticable compared to some films and the structure of the film blends in really well so there are no points where it seems to just pass time and lack any depth. The movie is captivating all the way through and it can be picked up quickly at any point, although at times it would be thought there might be a little variation to the sort of environment cruise finds himself in. nevertheless, this probably stands up to the critics reviews in that it is liklely to be the best action/epic/alien film made yet....highly recommendable!

Well worth the money, fantastic film. Excellent updated version of an old film. Highly recommended!!

Always have been interested in Science fiction matters, whether written e.g. H G Wells, cinema, DVD's. This version does not match the original film which I saw when it first came out - for me, this later version was too much of a repeat and represented a 'struggle' for the producer to match the first one. PT (ackwarius2004)

Excellent film, from beggining to end.
it really grabs your attention through out the film, you wont find a dull moment through out.
its one for the collection

I really like this film i found my heart was facing seeing what was going to happen.Ive never seen the first and my partner said not as good as the first one.Men :(
A little advise do not watch scary movie before watching this film they take the mick a little and if you watch it first it will spoil it.

I love scary films and this film was just a prime example of it. The tension created is amazing, I could watch it a thousand times and still watch it a thousand more!

good story line
good ending
good acting
bit scary with all the horrible dead bodies floating down the rive

Excellent film