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The War of the Worlds   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   The Critics: none available Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B- 11029 ratings  User Reviews (78 reviews) Write your own review Sort by:  Most HelpfulMost RecentHighest GradeLowest Grade Previous   |  1-10 of 78  |   Next   Overall Grade: A+ Story: N/A Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A The Original Is Still The Best.... by Joy (movies profile) (Jun 6, 2008) 12 of 14 people found this review helpful As much as I admire Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg...some classics should not be remade. I know the combination of technical/special effects, Tom's acting and Spielberg'... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ The Ultimate Alien Invasion movie by Jason C (movies profile) (Aug 9, 2007) 7 of 7 people found this review helpful This is the benchmark for Science Fiction "aliens attack the Earth" movies. This 1950's version of "War of the Worlds" easily trumps any later movies in this sub-genre o... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: B Acting: B Direction: B Visuals: A The True Independence Day! by Tank (movies profile) (Jul 16, 2006) 8 of 10 people found this review helpful An awesome martian movie, especially for the 1950's. It has everything, aliens, explosions, death, demolition....what more do you want. If you carefully watch and look... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: A+ Classic Sci-Fi Tale by Danny M (movies profile) (Jul 16, 2006) 5 of 5 people found this review helpful If you come into this movie expecting effects from this day and age, then you will be grossly dissapointed. However, for it's time, the movie had incredible special effec... Full Review Overall Grade: B Story: B+ Acting: B Direction: B Visuals: C- See the new one instead by Mitch (movies profile) (Jan 10, 2007) 4 of 5 people found this review helpful This movie is fun to watch but its not really scary ,well at least not anymore maybee it was scary in the 50's when it came out but now the effects are so corny you cant... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ The best of the best. by Dusten (movies profile) (Sep 2, 2006) 3 of 3 people found this review helpful This movie was superb. On of the best I've ever seen. The spacial effects and actors were great. This movie is worth thousands of emmy's to me. If a picture is worth a tj... Full Review Overall Grade: B Story: A- Acting: C- Direction: B Visuals: B+ "Is that some kind of fireball?" by Josh (movies profile) (Jul 16, 2006) 3 of 3 people found this review helpful The story behind The War of the Worlds is overdone in our day and age, but at the time it was still quite new. Martians descend upon the Earth searching for a new home, a... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: N/A Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A Awsome Sfi for its time, even now! by Beachs Yo Yo's (movies profile) (Jul 16, 2006) 3 of 3 people found this review helpful Certainly ranks in the top 10 Science fiction of all time! The Martian machines may be the coolest of any alien weapontry produce in a movie, and that it moves with acti... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A+ Acting: B+ Direction: A Visuals: A+ My idea of a scarey movie by allmyflaws (movies profile) (Jul 16, 2006) 3 of 3 people found this review helpful I saw this movie when it first came out and it left a lasting impression on me. I can still see those "eyes" from the spaceships searching for people to kill. This movi... Full Review Overall Grade: A- Story: A- Acting: A- Direction: A Visuals: A+ "Welcome to California" by Alan Tracy (movies profile) (Jul 16, 2006) 3 of 3 people found this review helpful War of the Worlds transcends the book on which it is based, which is itself pretty darned good. For one thing, the movie more truly lives up to its title because the Mart... Full Review Previous   |  1-10 of 78  |   Next