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Title: Faithful but awful acting
Review: Like other reviewers I have always enjoyed HG Wells' War of the Worlds and was looking forward to seeing an adaptation set in the early 1900s when Wells' story is set. However, the acting in this film is dreadful. The characters are 1 dimensional and simply don't interact. In fact wooden is the only term that comes to mind. I could forgive the awful CGI effects but when combined with a poorly directed, edited and acted film the end result is barely watchable.The reason I have given it two stars is because it is faithful to the book and therefore Wells' story telling manages to come through-just.A hefty re-edit and deletion of some of the worse CGI effects might improve the film, for example, let us imagine the Martians feeding.If you love the book the film might be worth watching but I wouldn't rush to buy it.
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