paddawan
I jut tried to watch the movie for 15 minutes... It looked like a 50's matinée movie with horrendous actors and terrible Special and Sound FX. Don't even try to take a peek of the movie... It's awful! Boring story, boring speech lines, The music score repeating. I really don't understand why people make these movies. Would they think that it can be a blockbuster? Anyone explain this to me. And I totally agree with robert-greenwood-1 from United Kingdom. He said: "This movie has a really effective anti piracy idea built in." It's so bad that no one would copy and sell it!Please somebody stop me to keep writing this sort of review. Oh! one more thing. As we say in Mexico: Mr H. G. Wells would die again if he could watch War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave.
peterr-12
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.
Neb229
I mean, what?!? Who in their right mind would make such a film? Well the answer to that is C.Thomas Howell, and judging by the appearance of the man he ain't in his right mind. To star in and direct this tripe has clearly got to the lad and that might explain why his acting is almost the worst i have ever seen, but not quite....That title goes to the incomparable Kim Little. Good God! I just noticed that she was also in the first one playing a different character. Really, she was that good they thought, Yeh, get Kim for the sequel, she's the business!?! The film itself is unutterable bilge. Claw your eyes out to ease the pain type of thing. A script a rabid monkey clearly wrote, while on a bender. Fx from Doctor Who circa 1973. Don't worry though after half an hour your brain will have stopped all higher functions and you will be sitting there, drooling, not even knowing your own name.The only saving grace for me was that i caught this on TV and didn't shell out for this on Video like some. If my Video shop stocked this i would have to immediately leave the premises and pray to almighty Bhudda that it was obliterated by invading Aliens.The only reason they make this stuff is to try and trick some money from you.Write a letter to your Congressman, e-mail the Pope, phone the President! We have watched this so you don't have to. Save yourselves! Don't, Just Don't.
Si_m007
I did my best to watch it to the end, but failed.Worst element? The music - constantly in the background and totally inappropriate.Some of the 'fight' scenes - laughably poor - just film someone with a bit of camera shake and you're supposed to believe they're having an interstellar dog-fight...The sets... I kept on thinking they were going to fall down - extra supplies of sellotape anyone..?I don't know what the budget was for this film, but someone, somewhere, thought, hey this is good enough to be filmed, let's spend money and time and effort on it.. but then it gives hope to many aspiring film makers - if they're willing to back this, then surely my efforts have a chance..?
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