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A terrific film that did everything it was intended to. This was not a film about humanity overcoming a peril. This was about the only way a family could survive an utterly overpowering invasion of the planet. The CGI was jawdropping. The acting was terrific (come on, how is a kid supposed to react to a two hundred foot tall tripod VAPOURISING everything in its path). Every single scene was laced with hopelessness, and by the end I was glad to see what remained of the US military finally down one of the fuckers. Even the one Hollywood plot hole in the film (the son returning) is very easily dealt with by the fact that Tom Cruise spent five minutes of the film locked up inside a cage on the underside of a tripod. I really enjoyed it in a way that I haven't enjoyed anything in a while. It was about as tense a film as I have ever seen, and some of the scenes really showed human ugliness at its worst. Terrific. 5/5
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