War of the Worlds

Monday July 11, 2005 - 9:08AM EDT

Saw War of the Worlds last night. It was ok. Enjoyable movie but the only problem with it was that it felt like it ended unfinished. I didn't read the original book so I don't know what was left out or whether the book also ended the same way. Basically I wanted to know more about how the humans eventually defeated the invaders. They said it was germs that did them in but I wanted more specifics. Maybe another 30 minutes there at the end to go into what happened. But that wasn't the focus of the movie anyway. The focus was the characters reaction to the attack and to each other. Which had it moments but still felt like it could be a bit deeper. I think that maybe the book was very detailed and deep and was hard to fit into a single movie. But I don't know really. I just felt like there should be much more to the story.