Friday, July 01, 2005

War of the Worlds

The moral of Spielberg's movie is "A man must do what he can to protect his family, even if he's divorced and his ex-wife, whom he still loves, is glowingly pregnant with her new hubsband's child." But no. A man need not kill another man so that his daughter can get a good night's sleep. Even if the other man is nutty. No.

The movie is a mess. Three three-legged aliens visit a basement safehouse where Spielberg's protagonist watches as they drink water and look at old photos. This is pure hokum, as is most of the movie, especially Morgan Freeman's sententious voice-over and the movie's stupid ending.

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