Best war machine ever.

Kudos to Steven Spielberg, who has finally redeemed himself for the last 20 minutes of "AI" with the excellent War Of The Worlds. We went to see it last night. The story was as good as its ever been, but Spielberg's vision of the Martian Tripods was just goddamn scary. He's also pulled off the best reveal in film for a long time as the first tripod emerges from the ground under an intersection. The design and scale of them is truly massive and, for the first time, a genuinely terrifying vision of mechanised warfare the likes of which, if it ever really happened, would render all of our military powers totally useless.
The sound engineers on the film need to get some sort of award. The tripods sounded like they were powered by a rhythmic combination gas turbing and jet engine, and the martian 'trumpet' signal was just blood-curdling. This is an absolute must-see movie if you like sci-fi, and it will be heading to our DVD collection as soon as possible.

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