Thanks for your post MageB420666, great to see someone with sense speaking about the movie. I read a few rotten reviews at RottenTomatoes.com and was absolutely appalled witht eh stupidity of some of these guys
"I don't understand why the kids couldn't make there own sandwiches"
"The 747 is definately a throwback to 9/11, this is simply a propaganda movie"
I posted this in another forum, too lazy to write a new piece:
So I saw this last night at The Embassy, I wasn't expecting it to be as serious as it was so it came as quite a shock. The film is relentlessly disturbing. This isn't any ID4, this is brutal Human killing Aliens messing up Earth. Spoiler: There's a scene with hundreds of dead bodies floating down a river, my god that was disturbing
It was great to see that there was actually a story and a theme underlying all the mayhem and some fantastic acting to bring it along. Dakota Fanning is scarily good for someone her age, in fact in Hide and Seek she even outdid Robert DeNiro's performance!
It had barely anything to do with the H.G. Wells novel but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing, it was so vastly different that it was pretty much just another story set during the same timeframe as the novel.
Definately a DVD I'll be ordering from the States if it doesn't come out at the same time here (fingers crossed for a special edition release).
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