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War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

This has got to be the worst movie made between the 20th and 21st centuries. OMG...the acting was so bad I was mezmerized...the southern accent attempted by one of the actresses was horrendously bad. This movie must go down in the annals of bad...VERY BAD....attempts at cinema. Who ever gave it a four star rating must have been paid well...or high.

Waste of time and money and energy and effort and....etc etc

The comedian, Father Sarduchi, had a routine where he ended up in purgatory after being just a 25 cents a short - of paying for his sins. How much short where these people of paying for decient sound editing?
The background noise drounded out the dialog and the 5.1 dolby would not register on my system (I checked with other videos and my system was fine).
The special effects did not match the dialog. An example would be the order for the earth forces ships not to fire, every one agreeing not to, and every ship is shown firing. They do a very brief FX on the 100s of earth ships vs thousands of Martian ships and show it over and over. I would think they could have gotten a High School nerd or College student who could have done a far better job and have been thrilled to have been part of this movie as their only payment.
Re-mix this movie and try it on the market again.

Ok, so from what i saw, they wanted to make a movie as big as the Tom
Cruise - War of the Worlds, but they tried doing it without a big budget.
So what you get is: some good looking Martian walkers...
Martian sets that looks like they came out from
a lost in space episode.
Big action scenes, that really dont work good.
Anyway, i did'nt find the movie that bad, it had a story, lots of talking and a handfull of actors/actress.
Good for a view, not a keeper.

Don't buy this movie. Don't rent it. Don't watch it for free. Don't give it as a gag gift. Don't even use the DVD as a coaster.

Everything about this film is ludicrous, and if C. Thomas Howell had any sense he'd have paid money to keep this movie from being released. The script is nonsensical. The acting is laughable. The costumes and scenery are horrible, even by low-budget standards. The "special effects" are embarrassing. The music often overpowers the dialogue. There is not a single redeeming thing about this project. Most films that get this far off the tracks are canceled before they are completed. I am stunned that someone thought it was worthwhile to press DVDs of this mess.

C. Thomas Howell was once a very promising young actor, but after this mess (he wrote/directed/and starred in it), you have to question whether he's lost his judgment or if he's just that desperate for work.

I have seen some underwhelming flicks before, but this one is by far the worst movie I have ever seen. Forcing someone to watch this movie would probably constitute a violation of the Geneva Convention. The acting is so poor it would make blind children cry. This movie is even worse than the musical Burt Reynolds starred in way back when.
Send copies of this to Guantanomo and force the terrorist prisoners to watch it and Amnesty International and the ACLU would be ranting about torture.

Yes, Asylum makes bad movies. Most are one- or two-star movies at best. "War of the Worlds 2" breaks the Ayslum mold by being a fun movie with good special effects and some memorable characters. It is far from perfect, but it is fun. I'm watching it a second time as I write this review.

Yes, this movie is "Independence Day" with a twist. It's fun and makes at least as much sense as "Independence Day". "War of the Worlds 2" provides a grim glimpse of the post-invasion world. Two years have passed since the first War of the Worlds. The humans have defeated the Martians, but the Earth's technology and industry remain destroyed. And then the aliens return . . .

The characters are believable, sympathetic, and intelligent. The special effects are good, especially for an Asylum movie. The background music is unobtrusive as background music should be. The plot is farfetched (Martian invasion, what do you expect?), but it has its own logic and physics to make everything work out plausibly.

Bad things: One character has an impossibly horrid faux-Southern accent. The audio effects are extremely loud during the battle. The Martians are still an enigma.

Good things: The DVD extra features some magic tricks performed by C. Thomas Howell. C. Thomas Howell is expressive. The other actors also pull their weight.

I don't even have the words to describe how bad this movie is. It is nothing like the first one, which I loved. I purchased the blu-ray version cheap, and now I know why. Not the sellers fault tho. I seen the bad reviews, but decided to get it because it was cheap. I thought maybe I would have a different opinion. I was dead wrong. It isn't even worth $8.00 on blu-ray. Read all the DVD reviews on this before you buy. Why would this embarrassing, shameful excuse of a movie, even hit blu-ray. waste of time and effort. A true real stinker. stay away from this movie. Recommended for frisbee throwing with your dog and friends, or torturing your enemies by forcing them to watch it. Your enemies will be begging for mercy if you force them to view this.

Those masters at Asylum are at it again. This time they have done for science fiction what they did to horror. If their rip off movies were just a bit more campy, they would be classics. Unfortunately they aren't. They are just bad. The Southern accent was bad. What is worse is that it wasn't needed. Now if the girl had spouted a bunch of dumb phrases like "shut my mouth," the movie would of had enough campy comedy value to be a watchable. To be honest, don't read my review, I only watched half the movie.

I doubt that HG Wells grandson (who was responsible for the 2006 version of another of HG Wells famous works, the Time machine) has seen this version of his famous grandfather's work, but I would think he would probably be embarrassed that such a poorly done movie called the War of the Worlds II would ever reach the light of day. I was a bit disappointed in the Steven Spielberg version of WOTW, but this one was so bad that I could hardly stay awake. The only connection between the HG Wells' novel and this movie is the name. Everything else in the movie was at best mediocre and predictible. Some people might like it, but I thought that this "sequel" was badly done. The special effects were cheaply done - any highschool kid with a computer and movie editing software could do the same effects and probably do a better job of it as well. C. Thomas Howell was overacting in many of the scenes, and the man accompanying him showed a weak acting ability, and as a sniveling sidekick, it's reminiscent of the old B&W movies where the token black man was the first to die, and showed a huge yellow streak down his back before he was killed by the monster (No, the sidekick doesn't die, but he stills quakes with fear, while shouting profanities at Howell).

My recommendation? Go rent Spielberg's version and watch that instead.

OK, i know where to start.
If you force someone to watch this movie, then you are either interrogating him or punishing him.
If you want to avoid waterboarding a suspect and all its supposed illegalities, then make them watch this movie, before 30 mins, they would literally cry in front of you and beg them to release them from this torture and sign any confession you want.
And, MPAA, if you want to punish someone because they downloaded a movie illegally, make them watch this movie. That will be the last movie they will ever download; legally or illegally.