I wanted to see this film as I couldn't believe that it would be as bad as the reviewers made it out to be. Well it started of okay... until the martians appeared from inside meteorite. It was all down hill from that point. The concept that they chose to use for the martians was comical. Although pathetic is likely a better word to use. To think that evolution (in any galaxy) would have created something as impractical as these beauties is too funny for words. Some of the CGI effects were okay. But most of them were so amateur that I can't believe they would have seen this in the cutting room and came to the conclusion that this film was okay to charge the general public to go and see it. Many of the CGI effects were of the standard that most filmmakers use in their rough concept animated storyboards. The scene of the warships at sea were so amateur and comical, we had tears from laughing so much. The acting was reasonable from some of the cast, but very poor from most of the cast. The tripod CGI was very disappointing (but in some respects, better than a lot of the other CGI effects). The mustache on the leading actor so so fake... and was so obviously a fake mustache. Plus his mustache would disappear with every other scene he was in. At first I though that he was having flash-backs, to a time when he didn't have a mustache... but that didn't really gel either. The editing was very poor. Many of the scene sequences simply didn't make sense. There were lots of scenes that could be removed, and it would actually have given the story better continuity. Many of the scenic sequences were shot against the green screen and the blending between the for and background shots was very flawed. Many of these shots did not need to be done with green screen, they were simple shots that could have been done easily with real background. It escapes me why they chose to do i this way. I can usually find something good to say about any movie. But I can fid nothing good to say about this one.
Review of The War of the Worlds
