7. Juli 2005, 03:05

Before I hear again some complaints I have to write more about the movie "War Of The Worlds", which I watched in cinema last Sunday, I better do it right now.

Surprisingly, I think this movie has been not bad, actually really good for an ordinary action-thriller. I liked particularly the beginning of the film, when the noise of all the blasts and thunders rolled through the cinema. The effects in this movie were really remarkable. When the church crushed, the street broke, the running people were terminated into dust, the bridge collapsed. Wow! This has been really breathtaking!

I also liked that scene, when the other people tried to get the car. This has shown, how people become to eachother's enemies in real death-threatening occasions. In my view, it had been even more chaotic and dangerous. I mean, in the States almost everyone has a gun and in this situation would use it.

Also in the scene at the ferry, I think, it had been more trustworthy, if there were more chaos and anarchy. I mean, when people see behind them the certain death, they would be more desperate and more careless to all the other men around them. I think, everyone would try to reach the ferry at any cost with all possible and inhuman means, including the soldiers.

Well, but I have, of course, also some other points to critisize. The story was a bit weak and difficult to understand. I had to explain the end to my parents, who I has watched the movie with. They both haven't understood, why the aliens have died. And I only knew it, because I have accidently watched the first version of that movie from the 50's some weeks before. some things were just not plausible. Why the aliens killed the people at the beginning, if they want their blood? And what was all that blood-gaze for, which the aliens have seeded? Well, I haven't understood it.

What I also didn't liked and have not understood, was the behavior of that boy. Is it really thinkable, that a young boy wants so much to fight, when it is so sure, that he will be killed and that he will not have any chance at all?

What about the actors? Well, Tom Cruise is in my opinion just not such a good cast as a family father. I don't know, but I just don't believe him to be such one. Has he ever before played a father? I think, everybody else could have played this role - it hasn't been a loss. The main role in this movie plays the special effects, anyway.

It was the first movie I watched with Dakota Fanning. Well, I just can say, she is (of course) cute with her big eyes, which can look very desperately, especially when she is filmed from above looking above. And she could scream very much in this movie - and this she can very good, too.

The end I didn't liked all. This was typically Steven Spielberg. Why again a total happy end? Why all had to survive? In the war against almighty extra terrestrians, I think, the son could have been killed.

And one more: I am always wondering, why aliens in movie always have to look like insects or like monkeys or even like Chewbacca!? Why they always have to have eyes, arms, legs and a face?

So, but enough of that stupid questions. It is really a good action thriller. I think, it's the best movie by Steven Spielberg since "Jaws". And that's because he hasn't intended to produce a brilliant, everlasting masterpiece with an annoying political or ethical message. He has made a simply good movie, entertaining and thrilling for two hours. No more, no less!