The Air Force general and lieutenant are wearing ABUs, with ACU hats while wearing their grade insignia on their chest instead of their collars, as the Army did on ACUs. They are also wearing name and branch tapes in the wrong cloth pattern for the Air Force.
The american flag on General Reed's army uniform is worn backwards.
A uniformed Olgivy meets Henry for the first time. Olgivy in army uniform is wearing a beard. Soldiers are forbidden to wear beards while in uniform.
Broadcast in the United Kingdom as '2021 War of the Worlds'.
The film heavily borrows many story elements from the H.G. Wells novel 'War of the Worlds' as well as not only from the 1953 and other feature films story lines, but also elements from the book including the alien weapons such as the heat ray and chemical weapons called 'black smoke'.