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- 2005
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Summary A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic, the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it. (Paramount Pictures)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells
- 2005
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
War of the Worlds
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8.1
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Summary A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic, the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it. (Paramount Pictures)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
33 Reviews
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15% Mixed
6 Reviews
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3% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
73
83% Positive
33 Reviews
33 Reviews
15% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny--another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 666 User Ratings
8.1
76% Positive
509 Ratings
509 Ratings
20% Mixed
130 Ratings
130 Ratings
4% Negative
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 666 User Ratings
8.1
76% Positive
509 Ratings
509 Ratings
20% Mixed
130 Ratings
130 Ratings
4% Negative
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
Spielberg's somehow turns 180° from making an alien movie with no damage to the world (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind), and then an alien who is lovely (E.T.), then to a robot who got destroyed by human (A.I.), to making a movie about a robot with an alien inside it, completely destroying the world, and it shows all of it from the beginning till the end so crazy, so madness, and that's what War Of The Worlds look like, making it the craziest movie he's ever made.
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The filmmaker who once aimed to enchant his audiences with cheerful stories of beatific visitors from outer space now wants only to scare the hell out of us. E.T., as it turns out, is a mass murderer after all, and we are his Reese's Pieces.
Alas, Robbins is far more interesting than Cruise, and you wonder what the film would have been like if their roles were reversed -- if Robbins were the loser in search of redemption and Cruise the agitated freak in the basement.
Acting is not really the point of this movie, which seems to arise above all from Mr. Spielberg's desire to reaffirm that he is, along with everything else, a master of pure action filmmaking.
It’s the right role for Cruise, but the movie is so devoted to him, so star-driven, that it begins to seem a little demented.
Extravagant in movie terms but stingy in emotional ones, it embodies all of Spielberg's bad impulses and almost none of his good ones: It's a grand display of how well he knows how to work us over, and yet the desperation with which he tries to get to us is repulsive.
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Much like "Minority Report", this movie works in spite of Spielberg's direction. Once you get past the first 15 minutes, it turns into a total roller coaster ride, with barely any dialog to carry the next hour and a half. Despite the thrill ride along the way, The ending is a bit of a let down, but that is keeping in tradition of the source material. My biggest complaint is the over reliance on CGI. Sure, technology has come a long way since "Jurassic Park", but it still doesn't look as good as the practical effects of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
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War of the Worlds is an expensive Sci-Fi action disaster film. Star cast, eminent director and good literary primary source. What could go wrong? And it's enough just to transfer the action of the film to modernity. And here's a kind of disaster movie from Spielberg. But there is no scale, Wells wrote War of the Worlds before the World Wars, he had no idea what it would look like. This movie begins to fall apart like a house of cards. Special effects are not surprising even by the standards of the early 2000s. There is no scale of what is happening. So it turns out that War of the Worlds cannot but show a catastrophe, not a fantastic show something due to primitiveness, not to surprise with scale. Also, the main character (who was well played by Tom Cruise in general) without a characteristic and the surrounding people sometimes behave inadequately. And the end of the film is as delusional and meaningless as the film itself. War of the Worlds is a bad disaster movie. As a Sci-Fi movie, it's not bad, but it's clearly not Spielberg's best work.
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures,
Dreamworks Pictures,
Amblin Entertainment,
Cruise/Wagner Productions
Release Date Jun 29, 2005
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Sie sind schon unter uns.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 6 Nominations
