Best movie of this year hands down!

Overrated and overhyped

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I was shocked at the lack of acting ability. Seriously, it's as if the director just said to heck with it all and crap out this fantastic hot steaming turd ball. So many times I found myself asking "What? Seriously?". I believe they just gave up on common sense and science throughout the movies. Yeah, everything you read about this movie as far as the reviews go on IMDb were all totally correct even the ridiculous claims are true. My biggest annoyance was the soundtrack. It was repetitive and literally sounded like you were stuck on the loading screen of a zombie game. Most of the time the music was inappropriately timed and by that I mean that it literally played the same gloomy death music the entire film. Some of the actors could stand to learn basic acting knowledge. I felt like they must have been running low on film or their standards were so low that everything seemed like it was on a 1 take, no repeats style filming. You can predict the entire movie plot as long as you aren't a 4 year old or drunk and high enough that you can't process simple plot lines. The ending was an absolute joke only because it made sense in a way. The survivors accomplished absolutely nothing other than to become reunited and then back to a "Pinky and The Brain" style motto. If you are being attacked by a martian civilization capable of interstellar space travel faster than light, why would you think taking out 1 Mother ship would solve anything. In fact this would most likely just get the real attack force to show up.In summary/TL;DR:This movie needed to be an hour shorter and they desperately needed to not use repeated combat scenes in CGI as a substitute for actual combat. The battle scenes really made you feel like you were watching an old time style cartoon full of repeated scene backgrounds and highly pitched fake screams looped and used several times again and again. Thanks to this movie I've lost not only precious irreplaceable time but I've lost all respect for any of the actors in this movie. Especially the main protagonist.

War of the Worlds 2 (2008) * (out of 4)This direct-to-DVD sequel has George Herbert (C. Thomas Howell) returning as the father who has everything turn worse when our alien friends come back for a second invasion. To try and stay ahead of them, George, his new buddy (Christopher Reid) and others jump in their spaceships and head off to outer space to destroy the alien's mothership (no, I'm not kidding). I guess you have to give The Asylum credit for delivering something that's actually worse than the previous film. It's really too bad this low-budget film took itself too serious because when you do that you really don't leave yourself any room for some humor and that's something this thing really needed. It also needed some campy moments because as it stands this sequel is just deadly dull with nothing going for it. Once again, the biggest problem is that the screenplay is simply all over the place and it tries to deliver some sort of epic story but it fails horribly simply because the film can't deliver anything. The low-budget prevented any of the scenes from looking real so it's hard to take your outer space voyage serious when you don't believe for a second that they're actually there. You'll notice most of the shots in space are close-ups of the actors and I'm going to guess this was done so that the production didn't have to "dress up" what was behind them (which was probably just a white wall). The special effects this time around are also on the low rent style but there were a few good set designs towards the end as well as a couple goo-filled items. The performances are all on the weak side and that especially includes Reid who really doesn't get into his character at all. Fans of his should certainly stick with HOUSE PARTY. Howell took directing duties here and I think he had enough visual flare to where I'd like to see him handled an actual decent project to work on. Still, WAR OF THE WORLDS 2 is pretty worthless and easily a title you can skip.

When I first sat down to watch this I thought that this might be a half-decent flick at best and at worst, possibly good for a laugh, but I quickly realised I was wrong on both counts.There is nothing remotely good or even funny about this movie, it's just pure garbage and barely watchable. It's surprising that it wasn't just shelved away in a vault somewhere. The original War of the Worlds, was made on a shoestring budget, even for its day, yet the "actors" in this recent pox of a movie must have agreed to work for free, as it appears that coupons were used to make this.This should be called "War of the Clichés", they're all in there, the brooding yet determined leading man who let's nothing get in his way, the un-funny one-liner sidekick that you just wish would die painfully, the team of double-talking scientists that invent the crazy scheme, which somehow just manages to work, despite defying all laws of physics, the tough talking military/mission leader, complete with torn off sleeves, (nothing is more terrifying to an invading Martian army than a sleeveless shirt), and finally the fact that no-where but the United States has the last few working jet fighters all retro-fitted and ready to save the world. Gee I feel safer already.To know beforehand what this movie may be like, just imagine a home movie with photo-shop special effects and no story and you'll be close. If you can manage to sit through it long enough without falling asleep, you end up working out the twists on top of twists and you wonder, why try to write complexity into a movie if you can't be bothered backing it with actors, who aren't any better than extras, and some kind of budget.I don't get why they continue to make movies like this that simply tries to cash in on an already popular title. Don't waste your time watching this, you're better off watching someone who's watching paint dry.

Guys, you have to understand. A) budget. $500k. Barely enough to buy the time on the video cameras let alone decent talent. B) C Thomas Howell has a trashed rep in Hollywood so the only way he could do anything would be to fund it, produce it and direct it. C) There is no REAL sequel to War of the Worlds so what the heck? I wish people would stop inventing things that don't exist...like the prequels to Star Wars. Don't give me that "They were always there and intended" stuff. They were rushed out the door and guess what? Pure Crap except for the last 30 mins of revenge of the sith which summed up the entire series for episode 4 to start just fine.No budget and C Thomas Howell should be ashamed of himself.