{"id":187,"date":"2005-07-09T04:27:42","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2005-07-09T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T15:12:50","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/09\/war-of-the-worlds-review\/","title":{"rendered":"War of the Worlds Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast night we saw War of the Worlds, here’s my review in a nutshell (I’ll try not to spoil it too much if you haven’t seen it):<\/p>\n

The plot of War of the Worlds is “run away from the aliens in large machines.” That is the entire plot, there is no love story, no hero, no real purpose for the invasion of Earth, no philosophy and no bad guy (at least none with any human emotions). Though most people on Earth die in the movie, almost no one with more than 45 seconds of screen time dies. The space from the climax to the end of the movie is about 2 minutes. In those brief moments, no real explaining of anything that happened during the rest of the movie takes place. Morgan Freeman (who doesn’t appear anywhere else in the movie) does at least make an attempt to give some justification for the sudden ending, but falls short of anything with substance.<\/p>\n

The graphics are great, the sound is awesome and there are definitely some tense moments, but the acting is unconvincing and there is absolutely no food for thought.<\/p>\n

Wait for it to come out on DVD is my verdict.<\/p>\n

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Technorati Tags: movie reviews<\/a>, movies<\/a>, war of the worlds<\/a><\/p>\n

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