do you hear that sound . that the sound of h. g. well roll over in his grave and between this version and spielberg cinematic abortion it be a tough year for the classic novel . but at least steven get a few thing right compare to this crapperella . hello and the ship weren not big insect and they have name . they be tripod and the alien work in three . the ship and the alien be all wrong and you do not really get to see the alien until the end . the effect and the cast work fine . but these actor be much good then this movie deserve . the bulk if not all the movie be the howell character wonder through the devastation and meet one person and they join him and he loose them for one reason or the other . there not more then two people on camera at any give moment though most of the movie . it like if they film three at once it would put the movie over budget or something . so fat the only and mean only watchable adaptation of the war of the world story be the george pal version way back in the 1950s . the black hole .