2005 · sci-fi · space
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Directed by David Michael Latt1h 40m2005
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.
Our read: H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · space entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / space, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
- epic-stakes
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