Guus Bosman

Yesterday I went to see War of the Worlds, a movie based on the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells.

A spectacular movie! Superb special effects, very dramatic without becoming funny an with an intense suspense.

The original story was written in 1898 but the script writers adjusted the story to make it less dated; the story was situated in New York and Boston, and the aliens didn't come from Mars but from an even more remote place. The acting was very good: the two kids in the movie were really annoying, just like you'd kids except to be in the situation they were in, and Tom Cruise was very convincing in his role as divorced father.

The suspense in the movie remained strong, all the way to the end. It's been a long time since I read the book so I didn't remember the end of the story anymore and that made it even better.

I saw the movie in the AMC theater in Court House, near our house, and it was a strange idea to go to the movies alone but it was a great movie.