| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Maestro |
| Stars: Tom Cruise, Justin Chatwin, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda
Otto, David Alan Basche
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Josh Friedman, David Koepp (based on novel by H.G. Wells)
Distributor: Paramount/DreamWorks
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Matt Noller |
| War of the Worlds
Rating: ***1/2 (out of ****)
A review by Matt Noller (http://uhmovies.tripod.com)
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is a profoundly frightening film,
preying on our post-9/11 fears as well as his own unequaled skill as a
technical...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Matt Noller |
| War of the Worlds
Rating: ***1/2 (out of ****)
A review by Matt Noller (http://uhmovies.tripod.com)
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is a profoundly frightening film,
preying on our post-9/11 fears as well as his own unequaled skill as a
technical...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by [email protected] |
| Ever since Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," the renown director
has fashioned his films with darker themes and less heroism than
usual. Consider "The Lost World," a mediocre, joyless sequel to
"Jurassic Park," that is darker and gorier than...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| In Steven Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS, an adrenaline pumping disaster
movie told within the context of a small scale family drama, Ray Ferrier
(Tom Cruise) is a deadbeat dad. An auto mechanic with an empty fridge and
an engine resting not so...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by [email protected] |
| Steven Spielberg's contemporary revision of H.G. Wells's 1898
sci-fi classic about a Martian invasion revolves around Ray
Ferrier (Tom Cruise), a divorced dad (i.e.: Everyman) caught in the
midst of an assault by immense Tripods from outer space;...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by [email protected] |
| "No one would have believed in the early years of the twenty-first
century that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than
our own. That as men busied themselves about their various concerns...
confident of their empire over this...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Ryan Ellis |
| "From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate, and drank,
they were doomed." Am I the only one who had to stifle a laugh when narrator
Morgan Freeman delivered that line with such dead seriousness? It was so
funny because it's so very...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Shane Burridge |
| Perhaps the scariest thing about Orson Welles' Halloween prank in 1938,
which found Americans frightened out of their wits by a radio presentation
of 'The War of the Worlds' in the guise of a breaking news story, was the
number of people who failed to...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Vorkosigan |
| Steven Spielberg is the quintessential American director -- no director
more completely represents the technically accomplished,
well-intentioned, shallowness, ineptitude, and incomprehension of the
outside world that marks the true American mind, and no...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Homer Yen |
| If I've learned anything from watching the
entertaining aliens-take-over-the-world
"Independence Day," it's that when any large
space vehicle comes, run for your life! After
all, those who lingered were wholly destroyed by
some city-shattering weapon....more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by Rick Ferguson |
| How much did I dig WAR OF THE WORLDS? I've seen it twice already. Saw
it on opening night, by myself, while my wife was out gallivanting with
the girls; saw it again the next night, with the wife at my side.
That's the first time this year I've seen a...more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by webmaster AT themovieaddict DOT com |
| Year: 2005
Rating: PG-13 (disturbing images, strong violence, some language)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: David Koepp and Josh Friedman more |
| War of the Worlds Review |
| by William Robert |
| War of the Worlds brings Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg together again
for another summer blockbuster. This time they've revised and retold the
H.G. Wells classic using state of the art special effects. And if the
movie were 100 minutes long it...more |
