War of the Worlds is a film without a soul. It's stuffed full with action but half an hour in I found myself bored and disinterested. Like The Phantom of the Opera nothing lives up to the promise of the first five minutes.
Morgan Freeman's the best thing in the film. He narrates it. Or rather, he provides the opening and the closing speeches: both lifted almost word-for-word from H.G.Wells' original novel. Morgan Freeman's calm, authoritative voice is the perfect vessel to tell us how "slowly and surely they drew their plans against us".
Sadly everything else is filler.
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