[techweenie]

The War of the Worlds is getting terrible reviews from several sources.

...which is too bad, because it's a good property and was ripe for a CGI-heavy remake (which I would have hoped would have been set in 1880 or so).

But no. Word is that the first 90 minutes are GREAT and the last 20 are a huge letdown.

I haven't (and won't) read any spoilers on the nature of the ending, but I'm pretty sure it's not what this joker on Defamer.com suggested:

"Perhaps Steven Spielberg should’ve cut that last twenty minutes, in which his hero saves the Earth by calmly and rationally convincing the alien invaders that there’s no science behind the drugs that make them want to eradicate other civilizations, and then personally [Ed.note—Personally!] helps each and every one of them break their crippling dependency on their evil xenopharmaceutical industry."