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Reviews
War of the Worlds (2005)
Unbelievable Characters
"Possible very slight spoiler" I rented the DVD with low expectations after the movie flopped at the box office. Unfortunately the movie didn't even meet my low expectations. Tom Cruise went back to his "all the right moves," blue color character and couldn't pull it off this time around. Being a mega star might have its down side, or was it just lack of Character building in the movie. All the characters were very thin to say the least.
The family story of a Dead Beat dad faced with the treat of Alien annihilation and taking on his neglected parental responsibilities just did not get off the ground. The ending left me thinking that if this is the moral of the story then the alien alternative for the earth might not have been a bad thing after all. If you've seen the original then there was nothing new in the movie, special effects were OK but certainly the story lacked the patented Spielberg touch. Its good as a B movie if that....
It's in the Water (1997)
Simply "BAD."
Its been a long time since I've seen acting this BAD. The story certainly had potential but the overall quality is worse than a B movie. Bad editing, bad lighting, bad sets certainly contributed to an overall bad movie. I'm totally amazed at the people that gave it a score better than a one, the one would be for a story with potential, nothing else in this movie deserved a point. I painfully made it through the movie hoping for an ending that could redeem the movie. I waited for a love story to develop in this movie as a point of redemption but all I got at the end could be called a childish same sex experiment. I'm glad I borrowed it from the library and didn't have to pay rental fee.