THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

I went to see The War of the Worlds yesterday. I have to say that my little brain was rather confused all the way through the film since I kept wondering when Tom was going to save humanity, instead of just being a terrible father and at the end I actually thought that the evil alien tripods had been defeated just by the mere presence of our tiny Tom. It was only in discussion afterwards that it was pointed out to me that Tom was actually just an ordinary Joe in this film, instead of his usual ‘go-get-‘em-grrr’ sort of hero. It was quite worryingly gruesome in places but I suppose one of the good things you could say about it is that I stayed awake all the way through.