Martian (The War of the Worlds) antagonists are the "squid-walkers", a cybernetic race of tripods controlled by a single entity inside their mothership. Inside the mothership, humans are kept alive and their blood is filtered, homogenised, and fed to the aliens. They are killed by infected blood injected into the mothership's core, telepathically shutting down the Tripods. In the film "H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds", the Martians are large, bulkish creatures, keeping the two large eyes and tentacles described in the book; but do not seem to possess the beak-like mouth. They meet the same fate as the originals, having caught Earthly diseases. Their
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