War of the Worlds 2005

影评 (16)

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   oliviathebi 2026年8月25日

   spoiler alert: tom cruise runs

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   Matt Singer 2026年8月25日

   The first two-thirds are among Spielberg’s most effective works, and one of the scariest things anyone has made in the last 20 years. (It’s basically all of my anxieties condensed into 70 minutes — thanks Spielberg, I didn’t want to sleep tonight anyway.) The pace and intensity of absolutely nightmarish images seems unsustainable — and apparently it was, because the final act shifts to something that’s much less frightening and then much less bleak. Even if that material has its roots in H.G. Wells’ original story, it still doesn’t quite fit the magnificent freakout that precedes it.

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   Josh Lewis 2026年8月25日

   One of the medium’s foremost masters of screen space has a panic attack, a full-blown psychotic breakdown when confronted with the post-9/11 horror, confusion and paranoia that comes with the realization that our space no longer feels safe. An idea he lets so viscerally and overwhelmingly drive his big-budget, movie-star-led blockbuster adaptation of H.G. Wells’ seminal anti-colonialist alien invasion sci-fi masterpiece that everyone who went into this thinking “hey, the Close Encounters and Jurassic Park guy has a new movie!” came out in a confused, disappointed and traumatized daze instead. Which is a shame because though certainly not without flaws, this contains some of the most effectively controlled, relentlessly paced and straight-up scariest pure cinema monster/disaster suspense-horror sequences ever put…

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   James (Schaffrillas) 2026年8月25日

   Why tf did they have to show the aliens onscreen, I was actually taking them seriously before then 💀

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   haley 2026年8月25日

   dakota fanning ate tom cruise up with this one i fear

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   Syaoran 2026年8月25日

   I guess Spielberg focused too much on capturing that chaotic end-of-the-world atmosphere that he forgot to present a cohesive narrative and likable characters.

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   Nakul 2026年8月25日

   Remove the son’s character and this automatically becomes a better movie.

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   Kylo 2026年8月25日

   Don’t have kids. They’ll just slow you down during an apocalypse event.

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   Mary Conti 2026年8月25日

   When 9/11 happened, I was in middle school. I was 13. When the first plane hit, I was just getting settled into second period. At about 9:15, the principal turned on the speaker and delivered the news. But we didn’t hear about the planes, because at that point, there wasn’t enough information to know about the planes in the first place. All we heard were the buzzwords: “Terrorists” “Attack” “Explosion” So the school was to be evacuated for safety precautions, of course. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. I saw no explosions that day. I didn’t see any death. I just saw the people in my life and strangers completely freaking out, and it wasn’t until…

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    Erik 🎼 2026年8月25日

    steven spielberg: i guess i’ll do this alien movie now john williams: i have to go as hard as possible in every scene or i’ll die

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    Patrick Willems 2026年8月25日

    Back in my day we had proper summer blockbusters that were determined to absolutely traumatize children

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    Sean Fennessey 2026年8月25日

    “No, this came from someplace else.” Still one of the most terrifying movies released in my lifetime.

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    Rob 2023年6月25日

    An intense, serious and harrowing portrayal of the H.G. Wells classic. Tom Cruise doing an excellent job of not being Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning out acting everyone. It’s hard to call this film an enjoyable watch as it’s actually emotionally affecting at times, with some very raw realism concerning human nature. This movie manages to keep a constantly high pace without being exhausting to watch. Well worth a place in your collection.

14. C

    CinemaSerf 2023年2月13日

    Sometimes it just pays to leave well alone, and this remake of the 1953 version adds nothing aside from more sophisticated special effects. A vehicle for Tom Cruse, it allows Stephen Spielberg to turn this menacing and thought-provoking sci-fi classic into a family melodrama with the star and his dysfunctional family travelling the breadth of the country trying to escape the terror that is falling from the skies. These metallic creations are ruthless, destroying everything in their path but somehow the emphasis of this is more on why “Ray” can’t get on with “Robbie” (Justin Chatwin) and whether or not “Rachel” (Dakota Fanning) can keep hold of her childhood toy. The effects are good: the lasers and the pyrotechnics; the explosions and scenes of dereliction are impressive – but oddly enough, I found them less so than in the iteration made fifty years earlier. Lots of horrified expressions as the cast look longingly at green screens, some banal dialogue and we end up with a film about the people in/behind it rather than one about alien world domination. After almost two hours, the ending – and it’s huge significance – is almost an afterthought to the boring story of who did what to whom over the years in the “Ferrier” family. Cruise can, at times, bring charisma to the screen. Here he brings little and I am afraid that I found this a triumph of commercialism over creativity and was cheerily egging on the aliens from fairly early on.

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    JPV852 2020年5月9日

    First time seeing this in 15 years and lame plot, annoying characters (both kids got on my nerves) and a protagonist who just runs around, as Tom Cruise does so well, but has zero impact on the end game which was… bacteria. Yeah, this was just as dumb today as it was back then. At least the visual effects and sound design still holds up. **2.5/5**

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    Peter McGinn 2020年4月5日

    I enjoyed this entry into the HG Wells film library. The special effects are great (to this amateur anyway) and the acting and action more than adequate. Plus it stays near enough to the sci-fi genius of the author to satisfy the fans of the classic novel. I will say that I got a little tired of the son acting like such a teenager, but he and the Tom Cruise character both show some character growth by the end of the film. Tom is one of those actors who seems to be playing himself a lot, but I suspect there is a lot more work to it than that. I’m not sure Dustin Hoffman would have gotten his Academy Award for Rain Man if he had played off a lesser actor than Cruise.

    I think there are a couple of scenes the movie could have done without, such as in the cellar with Cruise, his daughter and the man who lived there. It slowed the story down, changed the tenor of the drama, and didn’t add a lot, in my view. But it is what it is and overall I found War of the Worlds to be entertaining. Good science fiction movies can be hard to find.