Your Honest Opinion on this movie... Share them please...

(Spoilers included... Kinda)

Stubborn as I am, I'm already 1 hour and 10min into this amateur film.

The first thing I noticed that started to bother me was (next to the acting) the incredibly poor dubbing. The voices were a constant annoyance, the effects too loud and voices too low.

The effects when it was pure CGI (Ships and space scenes) were good, the tripods were ok in design, bad in CGI. The acting is horrible and the scrips is awful. The story is very "Made of TV", with an annoying black side kick who's really not a side kick but a pain in the yahoo. BUT, he's the most fun, believe it or not.

Then Kim Little who does a very annoying accent and the son who looks like a girl. It's is getting progressively bad. Kim Little with the super fake southern accent is getting on my nerves, though she has a pretty mouth it still doesn't save the film.

It borrows from Independence Day, Fire in the Sky, Invasion, Some mixed Sci Fi here and there, but generally it's a weak film.

I do feel that Sci Fi is having a very poor presentation these days, it is getting more and more prone to the typical stereo types of stories and plots. Then when they treat it like fantasy films with low budget effects and poor script writing, it's straight to the morgue. Like a lot of Fantasy films these days they get bastardized offsprings with weak effects and lame overused plots and stories.

In this film, the world has more or less come to an end, yet a few (very few people) still manage to fight against them and build all those (otherwise cool) ships. It seems even extras had a price tag they couldn't afford, cause there's almost no people left in the world yet, we see London, Paris (It seems the world is made up of the US, London and Paris ONLY) being destroyed. I wonder why it is always these cities? First London, then Paris, it's like writers ONLY know these two places. Why don't we see Egypt burn, Asia, Australia, Scandinavia? Or is Mars THAT much closer? Arrgh... Simpletons...

The father, son story is a used to death story and I think it's not really working in this one either. We're supposed to see THE END OF THE WORLD and yet, we waste time on this father and son story. It seems the writers didn't have a really good idea on how to save humanity and since they can't save us from boredom what can we except?

I'm still watching this movie as I am writing this review (yes boredom kicked in not long after the film started) and they are just about to escape Mars from the past (yeah I know, silly really but then I didn't write this incredibly cheesy script), yet they are communicating through simple radio from a vast distance between Earth and Mars (not taking into account that earth is in a different time). Hmm, ok so they didn't really think through that part. Whatever...

BUT, whatever it maybe, it is at least a try, but it's raping the genre and I am sad to say, it's also making people allergic to Sci Fi when we still keep making doodoo like this.

Geeesh, this kid looks so much like a girl, it's scary!

Well, for all intents and purposes... WHAT??? The dad came back from NO WHERE? What the hell happened?

Never mind....

What was I saying... oh yeah... Well, for all intents and purposes... I think they made this movie in hopes of selling this as a potential TV series for some newbie TV network. And it does follow the typical format for doing so but not very successfully, I might add.

I love how in the end, everyone is oooh so happy, listening to the radio (I guess we can count on Disc Jockeys for playing music till the end of time) when all of the sudden the music is interrupted with the ALIEN mumbo jumbo...

Then... Fade to Black... waiting, anticipating and hoping for some retarded TV network to pick this monkey poo up and do a TV series...

God I hope they won't...

Sorry Chris, but you should have really paid attention to the way it's been written, it's so typical, if you want to do something worthy of remembering, then take it to another level and make something daring and new out of an old story. This is not new and not bold in any way.

Here is where you could have been more creative :

• Instead of a Father, son story, do a Brother, Sister story or a Husband and Wife story.
- You could have used the relationship between the married couple to branch out to where ever really...
• Instead of TWO scientists building a fleet of cool ships, have a bunch of people working side by side, with scientists, in unison with the rest of the worlds remaining people and try to solve this war together like we probably would try to do in real life but fail. And that's where you could added a lot more stories into it, like corruption, fanatics etc.
• Instead of a freak course of events hurdling the fleet to Mars, make them at least encounter something more interesting than a barren planet we already know. Build underground Cities, which could then be a better target to destroy should this have ever been made into a TV series.
• Make some new ideas in how to depict the Aliens and their culture, make them more intelligent and try to make the viewers see them as such.
• Build on the story, expand in a creative way, by brining into the picture something like, a twist. Maybe you could have used the original War of the Worlds story as a true event mixed with reality, where the visitors once already attacked earth but failed... people forgot about it and no one really believed it ever happened. But it's happening again and this time it's much worse.
• Forget about side kicks and try to make your side kick more interesting, like oh I don't know, say a really bad criminal before the war began. He could have connections to the few remaining underground people who he could lead as a part of the attack against the aliens. Turning something bad into something good, redemptions. A heroes journey...
• Then use the priest, wisely because everyone has used this character in such stories to death and always managed to get them wrong. Make him interesting...
• Then throw into the mix some mysticism, where people who were abducted started to have side effects that enabled them to develop abilities that could be used as a weapon against the Aliens, but not without consequences (Bring in the wife as a weapon and how she would die if she was used against the aliens would then form the conflict)

Blah, you get the point...

This could have gone many directions... but it didn't...

I watched this movie as a good Amateur movie... but the reality was that it was as a horrible commercial movie.

So what are your thoughts on this attempt?

And Sorry Chris, I do like your other stuff, but this one was a Sci Fi Classic and since I do write Sci Fi, I have to report on why I didn't like this one.