2005 · sci-fi · action · thriller
War of the Worlds (Spielberg)
Directed by Steven Spielberg1h 57m2005
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Our read: War of the Worlds (Spielberg) (2005) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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