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that movie was terrible IMO. sure, a lot of things blew up, but the plot of a hundred year old book where germs kill off the aliens is to tired to work today, the plot (all 5 minutes of it) was loosley seeded in between 20 minute chase scenes that all ended up the same: tom cruise and that annoying, whinny, pain in the @$$ girl (dakota fanning) surivive. hell, even the boy survived and he ran head on into a giant alien army! why did he do that? for some reason a perfectly normal seeming teen had a severe death wish and didnt care at all about the well-being of his step-dad and sister. oh, and the ending? im sure it makes plenty of sense that every major city has been overrun by giant tripods, but GRANDMA'S house is just fine. this movie was a cliché ridden, mind numbing bore.

4/10.... meh