Very disappointing...

good back-story, and good acting

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Blistering performances.

I was shocked at the lack of acting ability. Seriously, it's as if the director just said to heck with it all and crap out this fantastic hot steaming turd ball. So many times I found myself asking "What? Seriously?". I believe they just gave up on common sense and science throughout the movies. Yeah, everything you read about this movie as far as the reviews go on IMDb were all totally correct even the ridiculous claims are true. My biggest annoyance was the soundtrack. It was repetitive and literally sounded like you were stuck on the loading screen of a zombie game. Most of the time the music was inappropriately timed and by that I mean that it literally played the same gloomy death music the entire film. Some of the actors could stand to learn basic acting knowledge. I felt like they must have been running low on film or their standards were so low that everything seemed like it was on a 1 take, no repeats style filming. You can predict the entire movie plot as long as you aren't a 4 year old or drunk and high enough that you can't process simple plot lines. The ending was an absolute joke only because it made sense in a way. The survivors accomplished absolutely nothing other than to become reunited and then back to a "Pinky and The Brain" style motto. If you are being attacked by a martian civilization capable of interstellar space travel faster than light, why would you think taking out 1 Mother ship would solve anything. In fact this would most likely just get the real attack force to show up.In summary/TL;DR:This movie needed to be an hour shorter and they desperately needed to not use repeated combat scenes in CGI as a substitute for actual combat. The battle scenes really made you feel like you were watching an old time style cartoon full of repeated scene backgrounds and highly pitched fake screams looped and used several times again and again. Thanks to this movie I've lost not only precious irreplaceable time but I've lost all respect for any of the actors in this movie. Especially the main protagonist.

Once you've accepted that it's one of the worst films you've ever seen, it's interesting to dissect exactly what is so bad about it. I could imagine this being shown in film school as an example of: Terrible acting across the board. Yes, even C. Thomas Howell who looks like death warmed over. But especially the girl with the accent that kept changing between southern, ? European, ? something else. Some of the worst editing I've ever seen: Lots of dead spots. Writing: Drawn-out, unoriginal plot with random unexplained turns, dead ends. At one point, a scene was almost identical to an earlier scene and for a couple minutes I wondered whether there was a glitch in the programming. (I saw it on SyFy with commercials). Special effects ranging from "meh" to bizarre and ridiculously laughable. Watching it all the way through makes you appreciate all the things that go into a good film and make it look effortless when actually there is a lot of good writing, directing, acting, editing, and cinematography that go into that "effortless" look. So I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 only because it may be of use to film students learning how NOT to make a film.

When I first sat down to watch this I thought that this might be a half-decent flick at best and at worst, possibly good for a laugh, but I quickly realised I was wrong on both counts.There is nothing remotely good or even funny about this movie, it's just pure garbage and barely watchable. It's surprising that it wasn't just shelved away in a vault somewhere. The original War of the Worlds, was made on a shoestring budget, even for its day, yet the "actors" in this recent pox of a movie must have agreed to work for free, as it appears that coupons were used to make this.This should be called "War of the Clichés", they're all in there, the brooding yet determined leading man who let's nothing get in his way, the un-funny one-liner sidekick that you just wish would die painfully, the team of double-talking scientists that invent the crazy scheme, which somehow just manages to work, despite defying all laws of physics, the tough talking military/mission leader, complete with torn off sleeves, (nothing is more terrifying to an invading Martian army than a sleeveless shirt), and finally the fact that no-where but the United States has the last few working jet fighters all retro-fitted and ready to save the world. Gee I feel safer already.To know beforehand what this movie may be like, just imagine a home movie with photo-shop special effects and no story and you'll be close. If you can manage to sit through it long enough without falling asleep, you end up working out the twists on top of twists and you wonder, why try to write complexity into a movie if you can't be bothered backing it with actors, who aren't any better than extras, and some kind of budget.I don't get why they continue to make movies like this that simply tries to cash in on an already popular title. Don't waste your time watching this, you're better off watching someone who's watching paint dry.

I am stuck for words as to how bad this movie is. The actors could teach trees to be wooden, plot had more holes than swiss cheese and 'Victoria's' accent!?!?! I can't believe she has even been to America the way speaks.I quite enjoy a good B movie, however, this was supposed to be a high gloss Sci Fi as the irony was missing, the casting agent, directors and production should perform ritual suicide for letting this get finished with their names attached.It staggers belief to think that while filming this movie, anyone could have been happy with the day's work.