War of the Worlds is the most rare of screen adaptations - a film that is faithful to its origins and at the same time, its own separate creature.
Based on H.G. Wells's classic 19th century science fiction novel, War of the Worlds is a humanistic story of aliens invading Earth.
Ray Ferrier is an arrogant, self-absorbed blue-collar worker who has almost had a family by accident...
He doesn't even know what to do with his kids,Robbie and Rachel. He is about to have his eyes opened to the true terror and tribulations of being a parent in the most extraordinarily horrific possible way, when alien war machines suddenly burst out of the ground and begin to methodically wipe out all of life on Earth. Moved solely by the unlikely hope that his wife is somehow still alive in Boston, Ray proceeds across the country with his children in tow, staying just one step ahead of the alien invaders and equally unpredictable and dangerous human survivors.
A film of terrible awe and humanity, War of the Worlds is some of the best work Spielberg has done in years and well worth every minute, even if the second half doesn't quite live up to the promise of the first.
Written by Dionissis Chatzinikolaou
(a fifteen year old English language student & cinema lover)
Based on H.G. Wells's classic 19th century science fiction novel, War of the Worlds is a humanistic story of aliens invading Earth.
Ray Ferrier is an arrogant, self-absorbed blue-collar worker who has almost had a family by accident...
He doesn't even know what to do with his kids,Robbie and Rachel. He is about to have his eyes opened to the true terror and tribulations of being a parent in the most extraordinarily horrific possible way, when alien war machines suddenly burst out of the ground and begin to methodically wipe out all of life on Earth. Moved solely by the unlikely hope that his wife is somehow still alive in Boston, Ray proceeds across the country with his children in tow, staying just one step ahead of the alien invaders and equally unpredictable and dangerous human survivors.
A film of terrible awe and humanity, War of the Worlds is some of the best work Spielberg has done in years and well worth every minute, even if the second half doesn't quite live up to the promise of the first.
Written by Dionissis Chatzinikolaou
(a fifteen year old English language student & cinema lover)
