Spike-in-Berlin

War of the Worlds was a truly awful, terrible mess of movie with starship-sized plot holes. As there are already reviews here which tell you just how awful this movie is, just one additional commentary from me.

The ridiculous, braindead, record-breaking unbelievable, extremely stupid "invasion plan" in this movie: Place tripod weapons and ONLY tripod weapons dormant in the ground of a so far uninhabited planet millions of years before a technological species arises on it and then send your soldiers by LIGHTNING THROUGH THE GROUND out of nowhere into these tripods which have never been discovered or damaged over eons although they only lie perhaps 100-200 feet below the ground of major cities to activate them and take over the planet without knowing that it features bacterias and viruses although they were already existing when you visited the planet the first time... To make this brief, this turkey of an invasion scheme lets the Plan 9 from outer space look like D-Day.

As someone who has read Jon Krakauers novel I was really interested in this movie although I did not expect much and how right I turned out to be. The movie is extremely rushed, we are barely introduced to the expedition members and already we go up to the summit. In only a few days of course because nearly everything concerning the preparations, the partially really amusing incidents in basecamp, the acclimatisation was cut out of the movie to show us a rush, no a blitz up the summit. The other expeditions, especially those responsible for a lot of the disaster because they were completely incompetent and inexperienced from Taiwan e.g. and the Indians who perished in the storm are ignored (Indians) or have minimum appearance (Taiwanese, I hated these jerks when I read the book). And although I am not an alpinist myself I did not believe a second this movie showed us Mt. Everest but some mountain in a much lower mountain range (actually Austrian Alps). I mean they are supposed to stand on the highest summit worldwide and in the background you see at least one clearly higher summit, how cheap is that? Well it is obviously as cheap as this movie was although the actors are really trying but they cannot create sympathy for their paper-thin characters with the few lines they got from this poorly written script. But I simply cannot take (or even stand) a scene seriously where a professional mountain climber in the midst of a snowstorm in the death zone takes of his gloves, breathing mask and other protections for no reason whatsoever...only perhaps because we shall see his face's expressions in a death scene? Too inaccurate for a documentation and not good or interesting enough for a movie-drama. And that the other 7! deaths of this day were not even mentioned in the epilogue was quite tasteless. Because the movie was fairly entertaining and the actors at least tried 3 out of 10.