War of the Worlds (2005)

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Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures

Studio: DreamWorks

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jun 29, 2005

Running Time: 116 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins, Rick Gonzalez, Yul Vazquez, Lenny Venito, Lisa Ann Walter, Ann Robinson

director: Steven Spielberg

The extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it. Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

All you can really say about War of the Worlds is: a) thank goodness Steven Spielberg has had a lifelong obsession for aliens great and small and b) he has the fortitude and talent to make an invasion by them scary, intense, and so damn real.

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Based on H.G. Wells' classic 1898 novel, this War is set in a contemporary world, where the threat of terrorism looms around every corner. But not even the brains at Homeland Security can prepare the human race for this kind of an attack. After a…

PETER TRAVERS - July 6, 2005

H.G. Wells wouldn't recognize his 1898 alien-invasion novel, The War of the Worlds, in Steven Spielberg's updated film version. But Wells could probably relate to the ensuing fear and panic. Unlike the campy 1953 film rendition with its primitive Martians, Spielberg's War is set in a real world seized by a terrorist attack. Divorced dad Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise, complex and vulnerable), a New Jersey dockyard worker, is a screw-up with his daughter (Dakota Fanning) and his teen son (Justin…