Reviews

June, 2005

[movieTitle]War of the Worlds[/movieTitle]Steven Spielberg has finally gotten hip to a basic tenet that science-fiction diehards cherish: Aliens don't invade Earth to make nice but to stomp our cities and hurt us. Based on H.G. Wells's 1898 novel, the film features deadbeat daddy Tom Cruise and hostile daughter Dakota Fanning caught in an onslaught of interstellar creatures. Says screenwriter David Koepp, "Spielberg has spent lots of time convincing us that maybe aliens are just like us, th...

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