War of the Worlds: New Millennium War of the Worlds: New Millennium After the most recent unmanned mission to Mars inexplicably fails, interest in the Red Planet is still high. The whole world watches as a bright spot of light appears daily on the Martian surface. As they continue, theories abound about what is causing it. Telescopes pick up movement in space: something came from Mars and is headed towards Earth. As explained in the Author's Note of the novel, H. G. Wells wrote the original "The War of the Worlds" prior to any modern military conflict (such as World War I or World War II).
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave survives the infection, and the humans celebrate while listening to the radio, which undergoes some static interference, indicating a third invasion, and the characters spend a few moments in silence before the film ends. Blu-Ray.com gave the movie 1.5 stars of out 5, finding that while movie opens well, it quickly falls apart, becoming a jumbled mess of a movie. "War of the Worlds 2" is notably different in tone to its predecessor. While "War of the Worlds" kept relatively faithful to the novel with a focus on realism and humanity rather than the aliens themselves, "War of the Worlds