Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

War of the Worlds
2005
****½
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto

Visitors from another world begin to execute a plan millions of years in the making: the annihilation of the human race. A neglectful dad and his two kids try to stay alive long enough to reunite with the ex-wife/mother. This blockbuster is wonderfully suspenseful and entertaining, and it includes first-rate special effects and some outstanding set pieces. Steven Spielberg's film is untypically but delightfully bleak, and closer in tone to Schindler's List than to E.T. Based on a novel by H.G. Wells which was previously filmed in 1953.